[mdlug] [TECH] kill -KILL fails to kill /usr/bin/schilly/cdrecord

[Brian]

On 8/28/07, Clinton V. Weiss <cvweiss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Robert Meier <eaglecoach at wwnet.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > How can sudo kill -9 have no effect?
> > ...
>
> I've ran into this problem before, but with any application.  With a
> Ubuntu install on an AMD64 I was unable to kill anything with "kill"
> or "kill -9".  This didn't happen 100% of the time either, it was
> random, and quite frustrating.
> Similar problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=54542
>
> This may or may not be related to your issues, but I thought I'd let
> you know about it.
>
>

Processes cannot recieve signals while running in kernel land.  Often
times if a program gets hung in an I/O operation, you will be
absolutely unable to get rid of the process short of a reboot or the
I/O freeing up again.

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Fati
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