I had this happen to me. The only command that worked was: reboot
How can I kill a program that has locked up completely and doesnt seem to react to anything?
I tries these, but didnt work:
CTRL+C
kill -KILL <pid>
kill -TERM <pid>
kill -HUP <pid>
I had this happen to me. The only command that worked was: reboot
I take it you couldnt xkill it? That has worked for me when the cli wouldnt help.
kill -9 PID ? also - are the parent processes dead?
you mean like mount /mnt/cdrom and not being able to kill it? mount and some other things to stuff in /dev can lock up beyond a ^C or kill -9.
[quote author=gorn link=board=1;threadid=4840;start=0#48259 date=1031111410]
you mean like mount /mnt/cdrom and not being able to kill it? mount and some other things to stuff in /dev can lock up beyond a ^C or kill -9.
[/quote]
Wow, nice guess
It actually was modprobe ide-cd that locked up, with absolutely no way to kill it. I still don't see why it locked up. Could read the cdrom or so?
I think the reason why it couldn't be killed is probably because the modprobe program is somehow connected to the kernel, and obviously, you cant kill the kernel
[quote author=Bartman link=board=1;threadid=4840;start=0#48333 date=1031166460]I think the reason why it couldn't be killed is probably because the modprobe program is somehow connected to the kernel, and obviously, you cant kill the kernel[/quote]
bingo
Yea, i've never seen modprobe hang... but i can see it more so than mount, and mount i've seen many times.
Reboot gets rid of it, if it happens everytime, something is screwy with your kernel.
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