topic unable to kill process in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

unable to kill process

Narayanan_2 — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 01:51:04 GMT

I did a vrestore -i and it hanged, so i just disconnected my telnet session. When login back and tried to kill the vrestore process with kill it was unable to kill even with -9. Now i can't even mount the tape because of this. What can i do to resolve this problem?

Re: unable to kill process

Joris Denayer — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:14:38 GMT

Hi,

I guess that the vrestore process is in U-state
U [Tru64 UNIX] >> Uninterruptible sleeping process.

Run following command, the 8th column is the state field.
# ps aux | grep vrestore

Rebooting is the fastest way to resolve this.

J.

Re: unable to kill process

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 07:23:17 GMT

Hi,

I am afraid, Joris is right. You have to reboot. Is the tape external? Shut it off and disconnect it. May be you have more luck.

greetings,

Michael

Re: unable to kill process

Ralf Puchner — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:33:54 GMT

Michael,

you can not switch off and turn the tape on again. This will solve nothing except you are using AIX (which makes it possible to reload the scsi driver).

So rebooting is the only way or waiting until a timeout occurs - but this depends on the actual state of the process.