killer question

Richard Gliebe richard.gliebe at fhv.at
Sat Nov 14 09:25:14 UTC 2009


On 11/14/09 10:15 AM meandmine wrote:
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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?

No, nothing like that. everything works and worked normal.

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