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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 -- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
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From: Jeffrey Taylor
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?
I had the same problem when my backup drive froze during a backup. Any further attempts to write to that drive resulted in the process going into DW, which is similar or the same as D, IIRC. Unfortunetly, I ended up having to reboot...I wish someone could fix that.
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I am using the SCSI emulation for a Seagate STT20000A, ATAPI TAPE
drive. After a few hours it timed out. Problem solved.
Jeffrey
Quoting Jeremy Buchmann
From: Jeffrey Taylor
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?
I had the same problem when my backup drive froze during a backup. Any further attempts to write to that drive resulted in the process going into DW, which is similar or the same as D, IIRC. Unfortunetly, I ended up having to reboot...I wish someone could fix that.
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
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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
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Luckily for me, the SCSI driver eventually (2+ hours) timed out.
Patience,
Jeffrey
Quoting Koos Pol
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.
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
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Jeffrey Taylor
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Jeremy Buchmann
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Koos Pol