>Number:         8679
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       kill -9 fail to kill some processes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 25 04:54:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Emmanuel Dreyfus
>Organization:
None
>Release:        NetBSD-1.4.1/mac68k
>Environment:
NetBSD gizmo 1.4.1 NetBSD 1.4.1 (KERNEL) #0: Sun Sep 12 22:36:26 CEST 1999     r
oot@gizmo:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/KERNEL mac68k

>Description:
Some processes (mountd, httpsd, login...) crash and are not killable by
a kill -9. 

Here is ps -axl output for thoses processes
 0 25546     1   0 -18  0   136    0 uvn_ge DWs  ??    0:00.12 mountd


>How-To-Repeat:
No idea about how thoses processes appear. As the system is running, new 
unkillable zombies processes appear. After 25 days of uptime, I had 5
mountd, one httpsd and one login that could not be killed. I had to
reboot the machine to get rid of them.


>Fix:
No fix known.


>Audit-Trail:
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