ifconfig and entstat commands hang

[ldedios]

HI,

Need help. I have a client you issued "ifconfig" command and used an interface that is on a defined state. those processes that had been issued hanged. I tried to kill those processes but to no avail. Their parent process is root so I can not kill the parent process. Another command that hangs is entstat. Is there a way for me to remove those processes?

Your help is very much appreciated.

thanks a lot

 

[psi07004]

Have you tried..

kill -kill pid pid pid

This will normally get rid of most processes.

 

[ldedios]

hi psi07004,

thanks for your reply. I have tried that command but it did not kill the processes. BTW, I am using AIX 5.3. below are the processes that I can not remove/kill.

root 549022 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/ifconfig en1
root 581802 1 0 Aug 26 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/ifconfig en1
root 610320 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 ifconfig en1
root 614642 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 ifconfig en1
root 622744 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/ifconfig en1
root 634934 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 ifconfig en2
root 639200 1 0 Aug 26 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/ifconfig en1
root 643226 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/ifconfig en1
root 647182 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/ifconfig en1
root 667836 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/ifconfig en1
root 676018 1 0 Aug 26 - 0:00 /usr/sbin/ifconfig en2
root 725204 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 ifconfig en2
root 782388 1 0 Aug 28 - 0:00 ifconfig en1

root 352282 1 0 Aug 28 - 0:00 entstat -d ent3
root 598200 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 entstat ent0
root 659572 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 entstat -d ent0
root 704748 1 0 Aug 27 - 0:00 entstat -d en0

Is there another way to kill these processes?

Thanks a lot.

 

[khalidaaa]

I think it's time to reboot!

Regards,
Khalid

 

[ldedios]

thanks... yeah that is the only solution that I can think of right now. But would know why it happens?