From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:56:18 -0500
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On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:29, Jan Knutar wrote:
>On Thursday 04 November 2004 14:18, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> The machine is hung.  No ssh, no ping response, the only button
>> that works is the hardware reset on the front of the tower.
>
>I must've missed where the thread went from zombies into totally
> hung machine. My apologies for the noise.

It went from an unkillable process (gnomeradio) that was blocking 
other programs like tvtime with its locks on /dev/video0, to 
completely hung at "stopping alsasound" when I tried to reboot.  That 
required the reset button to get going again.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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