killing 'dead' processes

how does one kill a "D" process?

Googling indicates that you can either wait a Really Long Time (days,
weeks) and if you're lucky it'll expire, or you have to power cycle it=2E

C'mon, this is linux=2E That can't be right=2E=2E=2E

TIA,

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ps ax|grep D

    7 ? DW 0:06 [pdflush]
 3653 ? DW 0:01 [pdflush]
 3827 pts2 D 0:03 cp -i ghost=2Ejpg thesis=2Etmp /mnt/dvd
 3864 pts0 D 0:00 shutdown -r 0 w
 3957 pts3 D 0:00 ls -F --color=3Dauto /mnt/dvd
 4036 pts4 D 0:00 shutdown -r 0 w
 4116 pts1 D 0:00 ls -F --color=3Dauto /mnt/dvd

This is a DVD-RAM writer=2E My guess is the media has a bad spot in it=2E=

from man ps:

D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)

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Received on Fri Aug 13 07:30:57 2004