[SunHELP] can't kill a job

[Jeremy RJ Towers]

hi Edward,

The process is in kernel space and cannot be trapped until it crosses 
the boundary to user space. It will never cross this boundary until its 
operation completes.

Only the completion of the erase will cause it to finish.

The process is probably hung now, and I think only a reboot will cure it.

HTH

Jeremy

Edward Chase wrote:

> I did do a "kill 9193", "kill -9 9193", "pkill mt", "pkill -9 mt".  I 
> used -15 as well...
>
> Even if I stick a tape in there, it does nothing.  If try to do a 
> status or rewind, I get "device busy".
>
> I've already alerted our users to a 5pm reboot, but am trying to avoid 
> that.
>
> It's my own stupid fault that got me here... Started to erase a used 
> tape and needed the drive to restore some files.  I "ctrl-C" the 
> erase.  I somehow managed to get the tape drive to let go of the 
> tape.  I inserted the other tape (write protected, thank goodness).  
> And am now not able to do anything with the tape drive.
>
> I'm not even logged onto the machine at the console anymore...
>
> It's an external unit, I've even shut it off.
>
> Here's the ps -l...
> $ ps -le | grep 9193
>  8 S     0  9193     1  0  57 20        ?    113        ? ?        
> 0:00 mt
>
>
> At 02:36 PM 9/6/2002 -0400, Markham, Richard wrote:
>
>> did you try kill -9 ?
>> do a ps -l to see if the second column "S" shows a Z for it
>> being a zombie process.
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Edward Chase 
>> [<mailto:echase at studentweb.providence.edu>mailto:echase at studentweb.providence.edu] 
>>
>> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:13 PM
>> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [SunHELP] can't kill a job
>>
>> I have a running process that I can't kill
>>
>> >     root  9193     1  0 12:22:15 ?        0:00 mt -f /dev/rmt/0 erase
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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