Re: Remotely rebooting a machine with state 'D' processes, how?

Mike Fedyk (mfedyk@matchmail.com)
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:04:07 -0700


On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:50:51AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:58:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Besides, does the reboot system call actually get the BKL? I don't think
> > it should need it..
>
> Actually, the machine in question turned out to be UP :)
>
> However, it does have RAID 1 and the notifier call chain stuff looks like
> a killer to me since it leads to do_md_stop.
>
> Perhaps we need a RESTART3 that restarts without notifying?

Interesting...

I have an oldworld ppc mac with RAID1 compiled on 2.2.19, and a bad floppy
made badblocks unkillable.

Is there another way to kill that will work when kill -9 won't?
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