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- From: ckennedy@sleepy.helios.nd.edu (chris kennedy)
- Subject: Re: HELP: how to kill a stopped 'tar' job?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.151708.15928@news.nd.edu>
- Keywords: 8mm Tape RS/6000
- Sender: news@news.nd.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
- References: <1992Aug28.114705.10989@mic.ucla.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:17:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.114705.10989@mic.ucla.edu> shinn@agsm.ucla.edu (Shinn-Tzong Wu) writes:
- >Hi, we had problem in killing a stopped 'tar' job, no matter what kind
- >of parameters we put, the process was still there and no one can access
- >the /dev/rmt0 because the previous process still existed. I have done
- >twice the most stupidest way - reboot the whole 520 - just to regan access
- >the /dev/rmt0. Would anyone tell me how to kill (-9 won't work) that
- >runaway process? Thanks...
- >
- >
- I would also appreciate any advice on how to regain a tape drive when a job
- is killed. So far the only thing that I have been able to get to work is to
- reboot the machine and since we have two tape drives that are both used heavily
- this is sometime difficult to schedule. Another, possibly related problem,
- which I have not had but several of the other people who worl on our machine
- have had is that the x-windows display will freeze up when you execute ctl-
- alt-backspace. Ususally what happens is that ps says that the job is dead but
- the keyboard and mouse don't respond and the screen still has the x-window
- stuff on it. I would appreciate any help I could get with either one of these
- problems.
-
- CHris
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