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- From: shieh@austin.ibm.com
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- Subject: Re: HELP: how to kill a stopped 'tar' job?
- Keywords: 8mm Tape RS/6000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.134717.13838@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 13:47:17 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.114705.10989@mic.ucla.edu> <1992Aug29.151708.15928@news.nd.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug29.151708.15928@news.nd.edu>, ckennedy@sleepy.helios.nd.edu (chris kennedy) writes:
- > 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.
-
- What level of AIX are you running? 3.1? 3.2? I believe
- you will be interested in picking up the fix for APAR ix24854.
- For future reference, people with problems/questions should call
- 1-800-237-5511 instead of hoping that someone on the net has
- the time or knowledge to answer serious questions like this.
- Please don't take this statement as chiding. But we care about the
- quality of AIX and think the 1-800 number is the fastest way
- to a problem resolution, rather than groping for answers on the
- net. Anyway, to order the fix, you gotta call the 1-800 number
- anyway.......
-
- > 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
-
- Don't know anything about the graphics stuff, just a dumb device
- driver grunt. But, there is this 1-800 number that......
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