cannot kill process with kill -9

[kyanh]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:10:04 +0200
Ruben de Groot <mail25 at bzerk.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:26:51PM -0600, Joshua Gimer typed:
> > You might also find a little bit information about what the
> > process is waiting on by attaching to it with strace (in ports
> > under devel) (strace -p PID).
> 
> why would you install strace from ports? truss does the same job.
> 

Great tips, Ruben! `strace` requires /proc and I am too lazay to mount `procfs` after installing `strace` ports. (In fact I installed `strace` then did nothing.) Going to `pkg_delete starce` now :P

> 
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Eray Aslan
> > <eray.aslan at caf.com.tr> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 09:41:31AM +0200, Pieter Donche wrote:
> > >> I have a mount_nfs process that refuses to get killed :
> > >> # ps -jaxw | grep mount
> > >> root ? 60342 ? ? 1 60289 60289 ? ?0 D ? ? ?? ? ?0:00.00
> > >> mount_nfs
> > > [...]
> > >> How to I get this process killed?
> > >
> > > reboot. ?You can't kill a process with a D flag. ?Google for
> > > uninterruptible sleep.
> > >
> > > --

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