Stubborn Processes

[stevenerat at yahoo.com (Steven Erat)]

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> The [device] driver is waiting for an event which will never
> come

That makes sense... now to figure out the details.

> run dmesg and see if there are any hardware errors

Will do. Thank you.



--- markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> 
> >> My question is how can it be that root cannot kill a process?  
> 
> If root can not kill a process, that means the process is in a condition
> in
> which it can not be killed. (Nice reasoning huh?)
> 
> Actually, the only time I have seen this is when a process is hung in a
> device driver. (not to be confused with something like ODBC which runs
> in
> application space.)  The driver is waiting for an event which will never
> come.
> 
> run dmesg and see if there are any hardware errors. This could be
> because
> the hard disk is failing and causing operations to hang.


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