can't kill process

[greglocke]

On a HP9000 N4000-65 server, I have multiple ioscan processes hung. Everytime I issue the command, "ioscan -fn" it hangs and the process(s) can not be killed from another shell using kill -9.

On a Itanium rx6600, the same this is happening with the df command. It just hangs and cannot be killed from another shell.

Any suggestions? I would rather not reboot since these are production systems.

Thanks

 

[daFranze]

I prefere to use
# kill -SEGV pid
instead of -KILL (-9); it will write a corefile, if the process can be accessed, which you need to remove

Best Regards, Franz
--
System Manager (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, some networking, some SAN)

 

[Martin999]

If ioscans hanging, you may hace a hardware issue, same could also be said for df.

You could leave for a while, if not a reboot is probably the olny way I'm afraid.

Martin