[Cialug] "stuck" process

[David Champion]

Yeah, those are the same thing.

-dc

Bailey, Jonathan C wrote:
> kill -KILL ???  (don't remember if -9 is the same thing)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 2:36 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] "stuck" process
> 
> I have a messed up X session running on a server, that's using all of
> the CPU time, and I can't kill it. ps output is:
> 
> root      2036 99.6  0.0      0     0 ?        R    11:46 156:42 [X]
> 
> I do a "kill -9 2036" but it doesn't die. I have killed most of the
> other related processes like KDE stuff, but this one won't go away.
> 
> At the console, there's a goofy looking screen with messed up colors,
> but you can move the X cursor around. It's not accepting any keyboard
> input - i.e. hitting caps lock doesn't even toggle the LED. Tried
> various "ctrl-alt-bkspace" and "ctrl-alt-F1" things and nothing
> responds.
> 
> Any ideas? It's not the end of the world - I can reboot the server, but
> have to kick a couple of users off for a minute. I'll probably just wait
> till people go home for the day & reboot it.
> 
> In the meantime... I was able to use "renice" to set its priority really
> low, so at least the machine is responding better.
> 
> -dc