kill -9 doesnot work

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On 8/2/06, Rodolfo Alcazar <rodolfo.alcazar at padep.org.bo> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:08 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> > Hi ALL
> >
> > kill -9 doesnot work
>
> Yep. Does not always work. AFAIK, mostly happens when the kernel expects
> for a hardware signal. There are some other causes, also. Try finding
> the problem, instead of killing it!
>

indeed.

strace on the process will tell you the last kernel function called
and may give clues as to where the problem lies.