Can't kill a umount

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/06/15 21:55, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I was copying some files to a newly set up USB HD, and then did some umounts when done.  Well they are still running, and
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> kill pid
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> is not killing them and they are taking up most of my cpu.
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> I have never seen 'kill' fail.
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> What can I do other than reboot? 

Well, a kill will fail to kill if the process is a zombie or in an  uninterruptable state.  If top doesn't show any zombies then the process is probably uninterruptable and I think this shows up as a D state in top.

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