[linux-help] Re: floppy problem

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:08 am, you wrote:
>
> Using 'kill -s <signal>' could do. Use the most cruel signal, 9
> (or SIGKILL) [see man 7 signal] or say short:
>
> kill -9 12310

Thanks Peter - kill -s gives me "bad signal spec."
kill -9 and kill -s SIGKILL don't give an error, but mcopy is still 
there.  Something in KDE has the floppy marked as busy.  Guess I will 
have to shut down kde if I want to use the floppy.
bruce

[bruce@bertha cdimage]$ kill -s 12310
bash: kill: bad signal spec `12310'
[bruce@bertha cdimage]$ kill -9 12310
[bruce@bertha cdimage]$ ps -aux
   -------------------------
bruce    12310  0.0  0.0  1612  552 ?        D    May26   0:00 mcopy 
gcc /mnt/floppy/
--------------------------
[bruce@bertha cdimage]$ kill -s SIGKILL 12310
[bruce@bertha cdimage]$ ps -aux
bruce    12310  0.0  0.0  1612  552 ?        D    May26   0:00 mcopy 
gcc /mnt/floppy/
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[bruce@bertha cdimage]$ umount /mnt/floppy
umount: /mnt/floppy: device is busy
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