pkill -f name-of-process 

That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first place

Regards,

John 

On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:39, Mike Wright <mike.wri...@mailinator.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I bought a Memorex external CD/DVD + SDHC but the CD/DVD part works once and 
> becomes unresponsive.  I've tried opening and reinserting the media but 
> nothing seems to happen, but iIt appears that each time I did that it spawned 
> another process.  Even the "eject" command hangs.
> 
> On inspection I found some processes using "ps -ax" that are marked with the 
> status "D".  The man page says that indicates an uninterruptable sleep.
> 
> Is there any way to kill these short of a reboot?  (Feels soooo M$).
> 
> TIA,
> Mike Wright
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