Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal
Date	2019-06-21 20:26 +0200
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<13kvtf-ble.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 21/06/2019 20.07, Soviet_Mario wrote:
> 
> I had launched a very long "dd" proc. un the laptop in a TERMINAL (500
> gb to transfer).
> The light of the drive blinked but no sign of progress were reported on
> screen
> 
> the copy operation, if relevant, was partition to partition (I used no
> offset for data even if first starting sector of each was reported 2048
> but I figured out that offset was the start sector of the partition
> itself relative to the beginning of the disk, hence indicating the
> partitions and not the disk as "if=" and "of=" I thought 0 offset).
> The problem though was the absence of progression
> 
> I have read the manual of dd anyway noticing that it claimed : on
> receiving signal USR1 the process would have printed to stderr some
> stats of activity and then autoresume the work
> 
> 
> So I collected the PID of the terminal windows where the subprocess "dd"
> was running (I picked up that PID for no "dd" process was mentioned in
> the Process Manager or Monitor I can't recall the name, I was using a
> Live distro, and no hierarchical info was available).
> 
> then I did (in another terminal, taking note it was assigned a higher PID)
> 
> "sudo kill -SIGUSR1 44356"
> the 44356 was original Terminal  PID containing dd
> 
> and the window just closed.
> SIGUSR1 is so mortal ?
> to whom should I have sent the signal and how to get the PID of the
> subprocess ?

to 'dd', obviously.

ps ax | grep dd

If you want to see the hierarchy:

ps afx | less

> 
> a part from that : the disk activity kept going on as if there was a
> parentless process still alive in back ground (which I had no way to
> abort, not having any longer a window to receive some CTRL+C to cancel,
> and did not show up in process manager to be manually terminated).

killall dd

for instance.




-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

Thread

misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2019-06-21 20:07 +0200
  Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-06-21 18:21 +0000
    Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal marrgol <marrgol@address.invalid> - 2019-06-22 13:27 +0200
    Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2019-06-23 05:31 +0000
      Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-28 10:54 +0200
        Funny... (Was: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-06-28 09:15 +0000
        Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Georges <georges@prout.com> - 2019-06-28 11:35 +0200
          Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-28 11:50 +0200
            Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Georges <georges@prout.com> - 2019-06-28 12:21 +0200
            Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-28 13:26 +0100
              Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-28 14:51 +0200
                Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-28 14:10 +0100
                Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-28 20:06 +0200
                Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Georges <georges@prout.com> - 2019-06-28 20:54 +0200
                Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2019-06-28 14:51 +0000
                Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "F. Russell" <frussell@random.info> - 2019-06-28 17:40 +0000
              Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2019-06-28 16:45 +0200
        Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2019-06-28 10:29 +0000
          Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-28 14:54 +0200
  Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-21 20:26 +0200
    Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2019-06-22 00:02 +0200
      Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-22 13:17 +0200
        Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal marrgol <marrgol@address.invalid> - 2019-06-22 13:32 +0200
          Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2019-06-23 17:57 +0200
  Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-06-21 15:14 -0400
    Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2019-06-21 20:42 +0000
    Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2019-06-22 00:23 +0200
      Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2019-06-22 09:50 +0200
        Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-06-22 19:13 +0000
          Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2019-06-22 23:41 +0200
      Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-22 13:30 +0200
  Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2019-06-21 21:39 +0200
    Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2019-06-22 00:33 +0200
      Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2019-06-22 09:28 +0200
      Re: misterious behavior of either kill or terminal "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-06-22 13:34 +0200

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