[wplug] kill

[Embery, Nathan]

You can try to truss an ls or another process that hangs to see what
sys_call its hanging on. 

Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Logan [mailto:lws118 at psu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:22 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] kill
> 
> 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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