Re: [kde-freebsd] unkillable multithreaded processes stuck in `STOP' state

On Thursday, 21. October 2004 21:23, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This happened twice already -- first with KMail and now with Kontact.
> A process crashes as usual (KDE's 3.3.0 release was of unusually low
> quality), and seems to go away, except it does not. It stays in the
> `STOP' (according to top(1)) or in the `T' (as per ps(1)) state and
> can not be killed -- neither with -CONT, nor with -KILL.

[...]

> This is all, probably, due to something in KDE's attempts to capture
> crashes and collect backtraces for better bug reports. But whatever bugs
> they may have there, having an unkillable process -- of any kind -- worries
> me greatly. Is this a known issue, or is a PR warranted?

There have been no similar reports (to my knowledge) and I haven't seen 
anything similar on either 4.x or 5.x (I don't run 6-CURRENT).

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