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Re: [Networker] kill jbconfig

2005-07-25 17:59:42
Subject: Re: [Networker] kill jbconfig
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:53:01 -0700
> 
> I am running 'jbconfig' on a Sun Solaris box, it is a networker 7.1.3 client
> and storagenode to a 7.1.3 server.  The 'jbconfig' command is not returning
> from searching for a SCSI jukebox, but I cannot kill the job.  I was able to
> kill the enclosing shell, but now still have a running jbconfig command with
> parent process of 1.  Is there some way I can kill the program without
> rebooting?

Usually this means that the process has called a kernel function (like
read or such) which is hitting a driver that has stalled.  There's
nothing you can do from user-land to kill the process.  The driver has
to return.

Sometimes power-cycling the device can help.  Sometimes it doesn't.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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