[ale] Sleeping Beauty

[Stephan Uphoff]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 13:20, Mills, John M. wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I started a 'df' that hung, and now reports its state as follows:
> 
> [jmm4450 at swlab01 jmm4450]$ ps 26609
>   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
> 26609 ?        D      0:00 df
> 
> 'man ps' identifies 'D' as "uninteruptible sleep" and this sure seems to be
> the case: I've killed everything I can associate with this task, including
> the window server under which it was started, but ol' 26609 just hangs in
> there!
> 
> Any way to kill this #$%@%^~~!!?

No.

Did you mount (non-interruptible) from an NFS server that is currently
down ? ( Can you bring it up again to unmount? )

Did you try another df call?

There is always the shutdown option .....