Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? | Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:56:18 -0500 |
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On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:29, Jan Knutar wrote: >On Thursday 04 November 2004 14:18, Gene Heskett wrote: >> The machine is hung. No ssh, no ping response, the only button >> that works is the hardware reset on the front of the tower. > >I must've missed where the thread went from zombies into totally > hung machine. My apologies for the noise.
It went from an unkillable process (gnomeradio) that was blocking other programs like tvtime with its locks on /dev/video0, to completely hung at "stopping alsasound" when I tried to reboot. That required the reset button to get going again.
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