Re: crashme on ARM - unkillable processes

From: Russell King
Date: Sun Nov 09 2003 - 07:13:47 EST


On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:43:22AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Subprocess 2: Barfed
> Subprocess 2: try 22, offset 88
> time limit reached on pid 1704 0x6A8. using kill.
>
> At this point, PID1704 refuses to die.
>
> Looking at the output of sysrq-p and sysrq-t, it would appear that the
> subprocess is receiving SIGILL after SIGILL after SIGILL, virtually
> continuously.

A little more information:

After trying to send SIGINT and SIGHUP, as well as SIGKILL,
/proc/*/status contains the following:

SigPnd: 0000000000000408
ShdPnd: 0000000000006103
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000000000000
SigCgt: 00000000000020fa

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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