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From(H. Peter Anvin)
SubjectRe: Communicator crash; kill -9 won't remove (pre-10!)
Date8 Oct 1997 03:29:59 GMT
Followup to:  <m0xIhqY-0005FiC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > kernel is hanging and why, as well as if there should be something done in
> > the kernel to help fix the problem (depends on if it's a netscape bug or a
> > kernel bug).
>
> A process unable to be killed by kill -9 is a kernel problem - always
>

... unless it is in a "D" state in which case it may also be a disk
hardware problem.

-hpa



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