Unkillable GPM stuck running, not D.

George (greerga@nidhogg.ham.muohio.edu)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 04:25:49 -0500 (EST)

Well, sometime in my switching between X and the console, gpm got itself
stuck running. Normally it wouldn't be a problem but I can't kill gpm.
Not even kill -9 will get rid of it. An strace hung before it showed
anything at all. GPM is just connected to a standard serial port on a
Logitech mouse. The mouse still works fine in X but I'm mailing this
mostly because it's an unkillable process and it shouldn't be. :)

/proc/276/stat
276 (gpm) R 1689 276 276 1088 276 336 54 0 182 0 94 1556492 0 0 16 0 0 0
4391 774144 17 2147483647 134512640 134539615 3221224928 3221224336
1074250340 17152 0 4096 134234626 0 36 0 17

/proc/276/statm
25 17 14 7 0 10 3

/proc/276/status
Name: gpm
State: R (running)
Pid: 276
PPid: 1689
Uid: 0 0 0 0
Gid: 0 0 0 0
Groups:
VmSize: 756 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 68 kB
VmData: 52 kB
VmStk: 4 kB
VmExe: 28 kB
VmLib: 616 kB
SigPnd: 0000000000004300
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000001000
SigCgt: 0000000008004202
CapInh: 00000000fffffeff
CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
CapEff: 00000000fffffeff

Gpm 1.12, standard RedHat 5.0 version.

-George

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