completely unkillable process eating 100% CPU

[Glyph Lefkowitz]

In Hardy, it seems that sometimes certain processes will go awry and become completely unkillable, i.e. kill -9 has no effect. When this happens the processes appear to be consuming 100% CPU.

I am reporting this as a kernel bug because kill -9 should basically always work, regardless of a bug in a particular program.

The most frequent program to encounter this issue seems to be totem, as reported here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=788380

I have, however, also seen Firefox do this, specifically when playing a movie with Flash.

This issue is definitely new in hardy. I have been running the same media-center computer under edgy, feisty, and gutsy, and I've never seen this issue before.

[Nenad Radulovic (blueskyniss)]

I can confirm this because I also couldn't kill Totem. Also see -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4978931#post4978931

[Nenad Radulovic (blueskyniss)]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 213053 ***
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213053