killing a stuck "D" process

Damian Menscher menscher at uiuc.edu
Fri Jul 29 00:59:17 UTC 2005


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Gaspar Bakos wrote:

> We are trying to kill a process that is "stuck", and we have found no
> way to kill it yet.
> We tried kill with many signals, including 'kill -9', and also removing
> forcedly the 'st' module on which this nasty tar is running.
>
> Any ideas?
> ------
> 21586 ?        D      0:14 tar tvf /dev/nst0
> PPid:   1

You have three options:

o Wait for it to finish on its own (may never happen if it's trying to
   access a hardware device that no longer exists).

o Ignore it -- it's not using resources anyway.

o Kill its parent.  In your case, the parent is init, so this is
   equivalent to rebooting.

Damian Menscher
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