On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:22:37 -0600, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: | | mt is stuck in D - uninterruptible sleep, according to top. I tried a | retension 8P and now it's stuck. killall -9 mt won't stop it. Is | there anyway to kill it short of rebooting? | | TIA, | Jeffrey Usually this means that it is waiting for some specific I/O which it doesn't get. And then it bites itself in the tail: It doesn't get processor time because it is waiting for I/O and you can't interrupt it because it doesn't get processor time... A reboot is the only option. -- Koos Pol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available