[Bug 213053] Re: Totem is 'uninterruptible'

[tony_s]

I tried to add my comment before but I cannot see it yet, so I'll try
again. I wonder if Ubuntu has changed "classical" Unix privilege
settings , and if that might be the problem. I have exactly the same
problem with Totem becoming uninterruptible. I watch a movie and close
the window. The GUI disappears but the process seems to survive. I have
managed to set a password for root and I cannot kill -9 the process. Now
here is my question. I work with both Solaris, HP-Unix and Linux. I have
never seen a case where root cannot kill -9 a process. In the Unix
signal definitions, you can read that the 9-signal is not catchable by
any process, and root should have the right to send any signal to any
process. Why on earth is the process not dying? Does this occur on other
flavors of Linux, like Suse, Mandriva or Slackware? Has Ubuntu (and
possibly Debian) modified the privileges of root?

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Totem is 'uninterruptible'
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