Unable to kill dpkg process on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS Server

[Kaushal Shriyan]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 05:47:05AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> I have the below process running on Ubuntu Linux 10.04.3 and i am not
>> able to get rid of these process using kill -9 26981 and kill -9 7550
>
> Wow.
>
> I assume you were killing them as root, right?

Yes

>
> Unkillable (with -9) processes mean they're in uninterruptible sleep.
> Usually this means waiting for some remote filesystem.  Do you use NFS
> on this server?  Or a fuse-based filesystem like sshfs?

Nothing of any application as mentioned above.


> Can you see anything suspect in dmesg?  Can you strace the hung dpkg
> processes and see where they're blocked?

dmesg reports nothing and I did ran strace -p 7550 -o /tmp/debug.dpkg
I cannot see anything there.

Regards

Kaushal