[H-GEN] 'unlocking' hung cdburner process

Nikolai Lusan nikolai at humbug.org.au
Wed Jun 26 07:23:54 EDT 2002


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On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Matthew Taylor wrote:

> ps -A | grep cdrecord

what state was the proccess in? if it was "D" then you are out of luck,
it is waiting for an i/o request to return.


> kill -9 xyz

if the proccess is in a "D" state this will have no effect.


> alas my cdburner is still 'hung'.

lets carfully define "hung" here, do you meant that the cdrecord
proccess is running and has not returned? Is the main problem that you
can't access your burner device?


Nikolai


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