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Re: [LUG] Process that can't be killed

 

Quoting Martijn Grooten <sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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.

Sounds like a zombie to me.  Try running top and see if it's listed as  
a zombie.

If it is, then I fear a reboot is the only way to go... unless you're  
an excellent shot and still have a copy of PSDoom to hand... :oP

M
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