From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 31 16:39:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7481737B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:39:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mantler.dyndns.org (N387P025.adsl.highway.telekom.at [213.33.48.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6AC43ED1 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:39:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from step@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (step-desk.home.lan [192.168.1.20]) by gw.home.lan (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9SN5F27098275 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:05:17 GMT (envelope-from step@acm.org) Message-ID: <3DBDC368.5090307@acm.org> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:08:24 +0100 From: stephan mantler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Invincible Process? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Through a weird coincidence I managed to get truss to trace itself on 4.7-RELEASE: root 97508 0.0 0.1 916 408 p4- D 10:30PM 0:00.01 truss -p 97508 The funky thing is that this process is now unkillable. I've sent it every signal in the known universe, tried to attach a debugger and yet another truss, but all to no avail. It's only a minor inconvenience on this particular system (and definitely doesn't warrant a reboot), but still. Regards, -stephan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message