Subject: Re: Unkillable processes under 1.5
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/24/2001 03:04:38
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 01:13:16PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can reproduce the following on two NetBSD/sparc-1.5 machines:
> >
> > I log in remotely and try to paste a large text in pine. pine does
> > no longer respond after I tried this.
> >
> > The interesting thing is: When I (as the user who was running the pine)
> > log in at that machine both the pine and the bash it was running in don't
> > react to a "kill -9".
> >
> > These processes run happily even two weeks later. Is there a way to kill
> > them (besides rebooting the machine)?
>
> Could you do a 'ps -axu' and 'ps -axl' and post the relevant lines here ?

[the problem occured four times on this machine]

'ps -axu':

bunk   24221  0.0  0.0 3416    0 pa- IE+  13Mar01  0:02.22 (pine)
bunk   23927  0.0  0.0  640    0 pa- IEs  12Mar01  0:00.28 (bash)
root   23926  0.0  0.0  348    0 ??  I    12Mar01  0:07.57 sshd: bunk@ttypa
bunk   23923  0.0  0.0 3284    0 p8- IE+  12Mar01  0:00.86 (pine)
bunk   23917  0.0  0.0  640    0 p8- IEs  12Mar01  0:00.21 (bash)
root   23915  0.0  0.0  352    0 ??  I    12Mar01  0:02.73 sshd: bunk@ttyp8
bunk   23906  0.0  0.0 3300    0 p7- IE+  12Mar01  0:01.08 (pine)
bunk   23898  0.0  0.0  640    0 p7- IEs  12Mar01  0:00.22 (bash)
root   23896  0.0  0.0  348    0 ??  I    12Mar01  0:02.93 sshd: bunk@ttyp7
bunk   23888  0.0  0.0 3300    0 p5- IE+  12Mar01  0:00.69 (pine)
bunk   23012  0.0  0.0  652    0 p5- IEs  12Mar01  0:00.60 (bash)
root   23011  0.0  0.0  376    0 ??  I    12Mar01  0:27.16 sshd: bunk@ttyp5


'ps -axl':

    0 23011   195   0   4  0  376    0 ttyout   I    ??   0:27.16 sshd: bunk@tt
    0 23896   195   0   4  0  348    0 ttyout   I    ??   0:02.93 sshd: bunk@tt
    0 23915   195   0   4  0  352    0 ttyout   I    ??   0:02.73 sshd: bunk@tt
    0 23926   195   0   4  0  348    0 ttyout   I    ??   0:07.57 sshd: bunk@tt


> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>

cu
Adrian

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