From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Errant find searches cannot be killed off or suspended by any means: ctrl-c, ctrl-z, termination of shell, kill -9, killall, etc: EG: xterm -e ssh fedorabox & ( in xterm ) me@fedorabox % find / -name something ctrl-c has no effect ctrl-z has no effect in new ssh session: kill -9 `ps -ef | grep "find / -name something"` no effect kill xterm with search, ssh into fedorabox, ps shows find is still running kill parent process of find, parent process dies and find becomes a child of process 1. Zombie find processes remain unkillable until system is rebooted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): findutils-4.1.7-17 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run find 2. try to kill it (eg kill -9) Actual Results: It does not die Expected Results: It should die Additional info:
Works for me. If kill -9 doesn't work it's a kernel problem.
I've only noticed this happening on my server, an HP LPr P2/450. I run FC1 inside a VMWare on my Dell Inspiron 8200 and was not able to reproduce the problem there; it's still 100% reproducable on my server. [tassach@argonath ~]% uname -a Linux argonath.pepersack.net 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl #1 Wed Apr 21 20:36:05 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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