Trying to kill a process that just won't die...

[Gregory Gulik]

Ok:

[root at penguin root]# strace -p 11952
Process 11952 attached - interrupt to quit

Didn't show anything and then I had a hard time killing strace but I did 
do it.


Then:

[root at penguin root]# gdb /bin/tar 11952
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library 
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

Attaching to program: /bin/tar, process 11952


...then nothing...



Dave Goldblatt wrote:
> a) do an strace on it and see where it's blocked
> b) attach with gdb and kill it that way
> 
> -dg-
> 
> 

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