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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:31:53 +1100 (EST)
From: tihor@bsd.org
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: dd refuses to respond to SIGkill
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>Number:         2596
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       dd refuses to respond to SIGkill
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 26 16:40:01 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Mon Mar 29 16:37:22 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Mon Mar 29 16:38:13 PST 1999
>Originator:     Tihor Lim
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
Occasionally using dd to write an image to a floppy dies (floppy light doesnt
come on, kill -9 fails to kill it).  This occurred when comparing write times
for various bs arguments to dd.

>How-To-Repeat:
	time dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 bs=4096
	this will occasionally die without warning.

>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: tihor@bsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/2596: dd refuses to respond to SIGkill
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 02:02:33 +0100

 As tihor@bsd.org wrote:
 
 > Occasionally using dd to write an image to a floppy dies (floppy
 > light doesnt come on, kill -9 fails to kill it).  This occurred when
 > comparing write times for various bs arguments to dd.
 
 Please, log into another terminal on that machine, and see on which
 event the process is waiting (_before_ trying to kill it).  You can
 see this in the WCHAN field of a ps -alx listing.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 29 16:37:22 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Timed out waiting for followup. 
>Unformatted:
