2.1.79: unkillable process

Philippe Troin (phil@fifi.org)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 02:27:13 -0800

>From 2.1.79 + vfat/msdos patch, on a dual PPro-166, while trying to
kill a runaway netscape process:

Script started on Thu Jan 22 00:46:40 1998
bash-2.01# ps u 29485
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
nordine 29485 79.2 16.3 15928 10336 ? R N 20:50 187:29
/usr/local/lib/nets
bash-2.01# kill -9 29485
bash-2.01# kill -9 29485
bash-2.01# ps u 29485
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
nordine 29485 79.2 16.3 15928 10336 ? R N 20:50 187:45
/usr/local/lib/nets
bash-2.01# ps s 29485
UID PID SIGNAL BLOCKED IGNORED CAUGHT STAT TT TIME
COMMAND
1015 29485 7 0 0 0 R N ? 187:49
/usr/local/lib/
bash-2.01# kill -STOP 29485
bash-2.01# ps s 29485
UID PID SIGNAL BLOCKED IGNORED CAUGHT STAT TT TIME
COMMAND
1015 29485 2f 0 0 0 R N ? 188:00
/usr/local/lib/
bash-2.01# kill -9 29485
bash-2.01# ps s 29485
UID PID SIGNAL BLOCKED IGNORED CAUGHT STAT TT TIME
COMMAND
1015 29485 7 0 0 0 D N ? 188:10
/usr/local/lib/
bash-2.01# exit

Script done on Thu Jan 22 00:47:50 1998

Any clues ?
I got a dump of /proc/kcode and symbols if needed...

Phil.