killing a stuck "D" process

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Fri Jul 29 20:48:17 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 13:53 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 11:14 AM -0400 7/29/05, Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> >Hi, Damian,
>  ...
> >> o Kill its parent.  In your case, the parent is init, so this is
> >>    equivalent to rebooting.
> >
> >And this is what finally we resorted to.
> >It is a pity that such situations can happen where a'la windoz style,
> >the only thing that helps is reboot. I am not used to that...
> 
> I don't know why the parent is init (I'm a newbie), but it would be good if
> in the future it were somegthing more killable.  Perhaps it is run from an
> initscript, and could instead be run from something run by an initscript?
> Say, the initscript runs a detached shell script which runs the command in
> a subshell?  (Like I know what I'm talking about.)
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init adopts the process so that it can (eventually) kill it itself.




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