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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 -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html