[wplug] kill

Logan lws118 at psu.edu
Wed Jun 23 13:21:41 EDT 2004


What can I do if "# kill -9 $pid" doesn't work?
I've been having immense difficulties with a new (to this computer) hard disk.
The disk is supposed to be just for backups, and is mounted with a script, the
backups run, and then it's unmounted.

It sometimes works ok, but at other times I try stuff like "ls /root/backups"
(where it's mounted) and ls freezes. I can't kill the process, and therefore
can't unmount the drive. It's not just ls either, cp didn't work - and it just
hangs there. Even tab completion freezes up "cat ~/backups/<tab>" freezes it.

When I tell the computer to reboot, it doesn't do that either. I get a new
process called "[shutdown] <defunct>" after the "shutdown -r 0 w" process.


The partition on /dev/hdb1, formated as reiserfs (my root directory and RAID 0
are both reiserfs too, no problems with them)
I don't suspect there's anything wrong with the physical drive. It was in my
parent's computer until they upgraded and had always worked fine.



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