How to kill an "exiting" process on OS X (state = E)

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Published on 2009-11-18T07:15:58Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 3:03 UTC
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I have a process on my Mac OS X system which is in state E ("The process is trying to exit."):

% ps auwwwxc | grep -si JavaApplicationS
sbwoodside    84547   0.0  0.0        0      0   ??   E   Mon12am   0:00.00 (JavaApplicationS)

kill -9 84547 does nothing. Is there any special trick to get this process to exit? It's holding some ports open that I would like it to let go of.

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