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Date:      Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:47:11 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        daniela5743@gmx.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: KDE process is unkillable
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0307160945200.25625-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <31052.1058342628@www48.gmx.net>

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 daniela5743@gmx.net wrote:

> I don't have NVIDIA drivers. Is there any known bug in the
> ATI Radeon driver?
>
> I rebooted, and all I have is the saved output from fstat,
> no core dump. Is this enough to find out what was wrong?
> Can I reproduce it under controlled circumstances?

You said the process was marked as stuck waiting for disk activity. Do
you have any network-mounted (or other unusual) filesystems on this
machine?

If a processes wedges in the middle of a kernel call, then you won't be
able to kill it - the behaviour you've seen here.


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