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[LUG] Process that can't be killed

 

Hello.

On SuSE 10 machine, a process (a bash shell) that has been (in)active
for about 8 days can not be killed: Killing it, even as root, doesn't
kill the process (but doesn't give an error either). Worse, the ghost
process causes 'ps aux' to hang in such a way that the terminal window
can't do anything (and needs to be killed) and the same happens when I
try to access /proc/<pid>. It's not really causing any performance
problems at the moment, but since I need to run ps regularly it'd be
nice if the issue could be solved, preferably in a neater way than
rebooting. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Martijn.

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