killer question

[meandmine]

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Richard Gliebe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> is there a way to kill following process which is locking our tape device?
> 
> root at yxz:~# ps -ef | grep -i nst0
> root       430     1  0 Nov13 ?        00:00:00 mt -f /dev/nst0 erase
> root     10059 10045  0 06:47 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i nst0
> 
> root at yxz:~# kill -9 430
> 
> root at yxz:~# ps -ef | grep -i nst0
> root       430     1  0 Nov13 ?        00:00:00 mt -f /dev/nst0 erase
> root     10061 10045  0 06:47 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i nst0
> 
> I have already turned off/on the tape library, without luck.
> 
> Also, I can't reboot the Server (24x7)
> 
> We are running Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS - 2.6.15-51-server
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Richard
> 
Just a thought, have you had a power outage during a backup, recently?
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