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

[Dave Goldblatt]

Gregory Gulik wrote:

>
> Ok, it's been a while since I ran into something like this but I have 
> a process hung that I can't seem to kill.  It's a gtar process doing a 
> backup of my personal files to a large drive I use as a backup device.
> [...]


> Any ideas????
> ...besides a reboot of course.

a) do an strace on it and see where it's blocked
b) attach with gdb and kill it that way

-dg-