[TriLUG] killing a process when 'kill -9' doesn't?

[Andrew C. Oliver]

Oh do send such things to the kernel folks!  

-Andy

Geoff Purdy wrote:

>>Is the process a zombie (defunct)?  If so, you will probably need to 
>>kill it's parent.  You may find a command like
>>%ps -A -o pid,user,cmd --forest
>>to be helpful in tracing the lineage.
>>    
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>Thanks for the tip.  Unfortunately, I had already bailed
>and rebooted the system.  I'll make a note to try that
>next time.  Interestingly, when the process turned "zombie"
>it threw an error in /var/log/messages.  Looks kernel
>related, perhaps that's why it couldn't be killed?
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>May 24 04:34:41 myserver kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
>May 24 04:34:41 myserver kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:123!
>May 24 04:34:41 myserver kernel: invalid operand: 0000
>May 24 04:34:41 myserver kernel: smbfs autofs eepro100 usb-ohci usbcore ext3 jbd aic7xxx megaraid sd_mod scsi_m
>May 24 04:34:41 myserver kernel: CPU:    0
>May 24 04:34:41 myserver kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c01396f3>]    Not tainted
>May 24 04:34:41 myserver kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
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