Re: Killing a process when kill -9 doesn't work?

On Thursday 05 July 2007 10:27, after a long battle with technology,
Shawn Badger wrote:
> how do you kill something when kill -9 doesn't work?

You don't, generally. SIGKILL will kill anything that isn't waiting on
a syscall to return. If something is waiting on a syscall to return
for more than about 0.5 seconds, you've got a hardware problem, a
kernel bug, or a dead NFS server. (There's currently a live thread on
comp.os.linux.misc about SIGKILL, oddly enough.)

> My RPM database has become funky and now I have an rpm process that
> will not close no matter what I have tried and I really hate resorting
> to the M$ fix.

Check dmesg for OOPS or BUG reports.

--
Back in my day, all we had were 0's. We painted them different colors
to tell them apart. Once this started bogging the processes down, we
switched to naming them. I still miss Bob. --skritch on a.f.c (1998)
There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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