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

[Shawn Badger]

I have had the database corruption a few with RPM's, but the process always
responds to a kill and I don't rember ever having to use a kill -9 to get it
to stop. The I just removed some DB's as dirrected by some web site and
retried the RPM command and it works. I have never had one get hung up this
bad.

On 7/5/07, Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No, it does happen with the rpm application rarely, and almost always
> its so honked up that a SIGKILL won't terminate it.
> I've seen it once or twice myself, and it almost always has to do with
> a corrupted rpm database.
> As far as killing it, that's something that I'd love to figure out....
> Though I've only ran into this on new installs when I'm applying
> patches.  I've always just figured itd take less man hours to
> re-install.
>
>
>
> On 7/5/07, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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