Hi,
Its seems that there is some problem with mandrake. I have RH 6,
and I put kernel 2.2.9 from Mandrake distribution. I started getting these
dead processes. Later I switched to 2.2.10 RH distribution, and
never had that problem again.
-Sid.
>From: Chris Faherty <rallymonkey@bellsouth.net>
>To: Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>
>CC: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: killall -9 does not work !?
>Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:56:51 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On 24-May-2000 Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > Chris Faherty <rallymonkey@bellsouth.net> writes:
> >
> >> I've gotten stuck processes pretty often ever since the first mandrake
> >> release -- i.e. never had them before except with driver problems. It
>was
> >
> > do you mean the 6.0 release ?
>
>No it was 5.3 (Festen), I just found the CD I made. At the time I had a RH
>5.2 boxed-set installed that I had upgraded the kernel to 2.2.4 without
>problems. I installed the mandrake with equivalent software and I started
>having the stuck xterms. I figured it had something to do with the CPU
>optimization of all the packages, so after a few days I went back to RH
>5.2.
>Now the weird part is that I was using the same kernel version.. so I don't
>really know what that xterm via rlogin stuckness was about.
>
>With my current setup the stuck processes have all been mundane shell stuff
>such as "ls" on a local IDE drive -- it never completes but rather just
>sits
>there although it still lets me type but ctrl-c doesn't work. I run screen
>so I'll just do a ctrl-a k and continue on with my life, but it kinda bugs
>me
>that they don't go away with a kill -9. It's actually one of the main
>reasons I've been trying new kernels because I keep hoping it goes away :)
>
>
>/* Chris Faherty <rallymonkey@bellsouth.net> */
>/* Your Stock has crashed - you must now restart your system */
>
>
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