On Friday, 30.05.2003 at 15:04 -0400, Ron Bauman wrote:

I have a random problem like this as well running RH Linux.  The
client occasionally fails amcheck in the afternoon. (Backups run at
nite.)  When I look at portland, the client, I find the selfcheck task
"stuck" and I am unable to kill it, even with kill -9.

Kill -9 not working is usually a symptom of a kernel bug, or a
hardware failure (usually related to a difficult to solve kernel bug
that the kernel cannot respond properly to malfunctioning hardware).
I've also noticed it when using "hard" NFS mounts, but I can't reproduce
it when I wanted to investigate it.

I've had gtar hanging and unkilleable on Solaris 2.6 sporadically more
than a year ago. I installed some patches since then, but don't know
if any patch cured such a problem, or if I'm just lucky.

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