From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Aug 28 04:30:24 1996 Subject: octave in uninterruptible state on Alpha From: Francesco Potorti` To: Octave users list Date: Wed, 28 Aug 96 11:31 MET Hi, wondering if any one of you has ever seen this happening. I run octave via rlogin or remsh on an Alpha 2100. All (apart from readline, but that's not important now) went well until one day octave stopped and refused to show its first prompt. A ps revealed that octave was there, in uninterruptible state. After making some tests, I now have some 10 octave processes in that state, and I can do nothing to run octave. The admin of the Alpha is reluctant to reboot it, as that is a machine used for long jobs, and rebooting would inevitably stomp on someone's feet. Ideas as to why octave blocks and cannot be killed? Remedies, workarounds? Thank you. -- Francesco Potorti` Voice: +39-50-593203 Satellite Network Group Operator: +39-50-593211 CNUCE-CNR, Via Santa Maria 36 Fax: +39-50-904052(G3)/904051(G4) 56126 Pisa - Italy Email: F dot Potorti at cnuce dot cnr dot it