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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 04:23:18 +0000
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Ernst Herzberg <earny@net4u.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 can't kill process in stat 'R'
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:08:40AM +0100, Ernst Herzberg wrote:
> lidl /proc/acpi # kill -9 3661
> lidl /proc/acpi # ps ax|grep klaptopdaemon
>  3661 ?        R    808:27 kdeinit: klaptopdaemon
>  5033 pts/1    S      0:00 grep klaptopdaemon

So it sits in kernel mode in running state and doesn't want to leave.
Say Alt-SysRq-T and see what's in the stack trace of that process -
that will show where it's spinning...