SegV's - 5.0.14D4 - Suse Enterprise Server 9 on Intel.

[Jerry Rains]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jerry Rains (Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:01:31 -0400):
> [...]
> 
>>2) We have an imput process table that will get a SegV every few days.
>>When this happens noone can use the file.  ? from dpromenu can't enter
>>the file.  Users already in the file can't exit from the IUA menu and
>>have to ctrl-\ to get out.  Once ctrl-\ is done 'ps -ef | grep filename
>>will find the defunct process.  Killing that process returns everything
>>to normal.  Early on I tried rebuilding the freechain, renaming and
>>copying the filePro file back and none of that helped.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure how you can kill a defunct process, as a defunct process
> is already dead.

Ok, Maybe my nomenclature is faulty.  I always have had problems keeping 
the various types of processes straight.  In this case the user had used 
Ctrl-\ to exit the rclerk session.  This is an example:

filepro  10952 1  0 06:45 ?    00:00:00 /appl/fp/rclerk distgross -s1

`kill -9 10952` causes everything to return to normal.

Jerry