Griese, Paul wrote:

>  
> Sometimes, we use kill -9 on the pid of ltid whenever the GUI's Device 
> Management hangs, and the vmoprcmd command won't respond. It has 
> happended a few times in the past here and the kill command was 
> successful. A subsequent restart of ltid got everything back to normal.
> 
> I have also heard that if kill -9 does not work, the fuser -k command 
> might.

We're using LTO gen II FC drives, and they seem to hang the FC connection
from time to time.  When this happens, ltid doesn't die or restart well
until the offending drive is power cycled.  I usually kill -9 for ltid
and then bp.kill_all the rest.

-- 
Dan