Gregory Gulik wrote:
Ok, it's been a while since I ran into something like this but I have
a process hung that I can't seem to kill. It's a gtar process doing a
backup of my personal files to a large drive I use as a backup device.
[...]
Any ideas????
...besides a reboot of course.
a) do an strace on it and see where it's blocked
b) attach with gdb and kill it that way
-dg-