Can't kill a umount
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Sep 6 15:29:38 UTC 2015
On 09/06/2015 10:19 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 09/06/15 22:11, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Tasks: 217 total, 5 running, 212 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>> %Cpu(s): 12.4 us, 84.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 0.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 3.5 si, 0.0 st
>> KiB Mem : 3636504 total, 34804 free, 2810220 used, 791480 buff/cache
>> KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 6408640 free, 1979964 used. 710384 avail Mem
>>
>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
>> 2197 root 20 0 125148 1840 1616 R 79.9 0.1 19:24.07 umount
>> 2200 root 20 0 125148 1904 1680 R 78.2 0.1 19:44.46 umount
>> 8705 rgm 20 0 2743540 579296 41008 S 13.5 15.9 4245:23 firefox
>>
>> And the terminal window this is from, is in as su.
> Well there are no zombie and "R" under "S" indicates it is running.
>
> Not sure if you'd run into this situation if you issue an unmount prior to the transfer being complete to the USB-HD. Either way, if you can't kill with a "kill -9" then probably your only recourse is to reboot. And then don't trust the data written to the drive.
>
I had to hit the power key in the end. The system time out, and then
did not respond to any keying.
Lost some work in Leafpad not saved. Oh well.
Yes the drive is bad. I tried one more thing the merchant asked me to
do before he would send me a new drive....
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