[ale] kill an unkillable ?

[James P. Kinney III]

<shudder> Legato </shudder>

If kill -9 won't unlock it, short of directly overwriting the RAM
address locked by legato, a reinit will be required.

telinit <current runlevel> _might_ give init the power to drop it
without rebooting the box.

You could also try removing the /dev/nst2 and remaking it.

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 14:06, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   I've got a legato network thread locked into /dev/nst2.  Sucker is
> aparantly lost in space.  If I do an "fuser /dev/nst2" it gives the pid,
> a kill -9 does nothing.  
> 
>   Any way to kill one of these processes other than to reboot?  It's
> getting rather common on this guy.
> 
> 
> :wq!
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