immortal process? (there can be only one!)

[Paul King]

updatedb might be looking for a disk that isn't mounted that was mounted when 
the command was invoked. It is now hanging until it sees something at the mount 
point that it is stuck at. Perhaps you had a CD-ROM mounted at the time which 
you later unmounted.

Paul King

Date sent:      	Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:42:39 -0500
From:           	Jing Su <jingsu-26n5VD7DAF2Tm46uYYfjYg at public.gmane.org>
To:             	tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject:        	[TLUG]: immortal process? (there can be only one!)
Send reply to:  	tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org

> Hey All,
> 
> On my RedHat9 2.4 kernel workstation, I found three instances of
> 'updatedb' running.  All three of them appear to be dead (consuming no
> memory or CPU time).  I've tried killing them (including kill -9), but the
> process refuse to die.  This is the first time I've encountered this.  It
> doesn't appear to be a zombie process since init hasn't removed it, and
> the three undead 'updatedb' instances are interfering with subsequent
> attempts at running updatedb.
> 
> Anyone know of a solution short of a reboot?
> 
> TIA
> -Jing
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