tar frozen

[Rouchon_2]

I try to make a tar of some directories, and the tar archive hang and become unkillable even at reboot time (unsignable process). The OS is not able to send a kill signal to the process.

Is my file systems corrupted? it hang in / partition how can i fsck this partition if it's a corruption?

Thanks

Pascal

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Pascal,

It's probably not a filesystem corruption - it's more likely a problem with the backup device or a file it's trying to backup is locked. Unfortunately when a process is blocked for I/O the priority is shifted to the kernel mode where, indeed, it's unsignallable.
You best & only hope would be to try to kill the parent PID - PPID - of the tar command & see if it reaps it's child as it goes down. Don't do that if the PPID is 1. If that doesn't do it then you'll have to reboot.

HTH,
Jeff

[RAC_1]

Are you trying to tar nfs files?? OR something that has problems??

cd to dir who's contenets you want to tar.
bdf .
Does it return ok??

Anil