kill a dead process

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:06:39 -0430
"Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > 
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> 
> A process in 'D' state *cannot* be killed. There was a recent discussion
> of this on the list. You have to reboot.

Or fix whatever is causing the problem

(as also discussed in the same thread). So for things like NFS mounts a
mix of kill and umount -f