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

From: Marc Ramirez <marc.ramirez_at_bluecirclesoft.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:54:28 -0400
On Thursday 21 October 2004 04:26 pm, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 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).

I'm seeing something similar with OpenOffice.  I'm in the process of building 
a kernel with kdb to try to diagnose.

Marc.

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