KDE process is unkillable

Shantanu Mahajan freebsd at dhumketu.cjb.net
Thu Jul 17 22:54:25 PDT 2003


+-- daniela5743 at gmx.net [freebsd] [17-07-03 00:30 +0200]:
| > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 daniela5743 at gmx.net wrote: 
| >  
| > > I don't have NVIDIA drivers. Is there any known bug in the 
| > > ATI Radeon driver? 
| > > 
| > > I rebooted, and all I have is the saved output from fstat, 
| > > no core dump. Is this enough to find out what was wrong? 
| > > Can I reproduce it under controlled circumstances? 
| >  
| > You said the process was marked as stuck waiting for disk activity. Do 
| > you have any network-mounted (or other unusual) filesystems on this 
| > machine? 
|  
| I have a NFS server, but there were no connections at this time. 
| KDE sends stuff on port 111 via the loopback interface, but I don't really 
| know what it is doing. 
|  
| > If a processes wedges in the middle of a kernel call, then you won't be 
| > able to kill it - the behaviour you've seen here. 
|  
| This may be a dumb question, but why the hell did the process use up all 
| the CPU time while it was waiting? 
|  
| I tried attaching to it with gdb and with truss, but I got no information. 
| I guess it is some kind of overflow, that caused the process to execute one 
| instruction repeatedly (only guessed, I'm not an expert). 
|  
| If it is an overflow, the cause must be in the environment. KDE was just 
| starting up, it did what it always does on startup. 
|  
|  
| 
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| ------------------------------
	try following in case you are having problem killing
	a process.

	# kill -9 <pid>
	# kill -15 <pid>

	Regards,
	Shantanu


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