On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:36:09 -0500 Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:
* Donn Washburn <n5xwb@comcast.net> [12-11-10 09:11]:
--> ps ax | grep tvtime 16292 ? D 0:03 [tvtime] 16486 ? D< 0:00 tvtime
You now have two instances (processes) of tvtime, both in state "D".
from the little used man pages which explain the results you received above:
<quote> PROCESS STATE CODES Here are the different values that the s, stat and state output specifiers (header "STAT" or "S") will display to describe the state of a process. D Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO) R Running or runnable (on run queue) S Interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete) T Stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced. W paging (not valid since the 2.6.xx kernel) X dead (should never be seen) Z Defunct ("zombie") process, terminated but not reaped by its parent. </quote>
From my limited experiennce, I believe you have a "hung" process which cannot be cleared w/o dropping to runlevel 1 or a reboot. (I may be wrong here. Someone need to clarify.)
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