On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:02 +0100, John Maclean wrote: > pkill -f name-of-process > > That normally works if you know the name of the thing in the first > place > [Please don't top-post; read the list Guidelines] A process in 'D' state *cannot* be killed. There was a recent discussion of this on the list. You have to reboot. poc