[Gllug] kill -9 does not work

Jake Jellinek jj at positive-internet.com
Tue Jun 26 20:48:38 UTC 2001


Hi,

(assuming this is still running!)

What is the process looking like in the process list if you do say a:-

ps auxw | grep python

?

Cheers,

Jake.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Xander D Harkness" <xander at harkness.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:25 PM
Subject: [Gllug] kill -9 does not work


> I have a production server where I want to upgrade rpm and other files.
> 
> I ran rpm -Uhv rpm-python*
> 
> The command hung.  I tried to stop the process using Ctrl C
> 
> The process is still running
> 
> I tried killing the PID using kill and kill -9
> 
> The process is still running
> 
> I killed the bash and ssh session that initiated the command
> 
> The process is still running
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas (and please this would not be a suitable
> forum for apt-get blah, blah, blah ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> Xander
> 
> 
> 
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