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

[G Balaji]

Will "kill -15 <pid>" work?

On 8/28/07, Brian <brian at dangerbacon.com> wrote:
> 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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