[cpia] gqcam hangs with D status

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Tue, May 02, 2000, Jacob Nikom <nikom@merl.com> wrote:
> 
> I am running gqcam application on cpia-0.7.4 on 2.3.99-pre5.
> using WebCamII Creative Labs camera. My computer is PII 233MHz.
> It runs well but after some time it hangs. Then create process
> with D status (uninterruptable sleep) and I cannot kill it but
> only rebooting my machine.
> 
> Is it expected behavior?

Not expected behaviour, however it is known. Check the latest CVS
version which has the fix.

I also posted a fix to the list a couple of weeks ago but I don't know
if the list is archived anywhere.

> How to kill the process without reboting?

You can't.

JE