Question: 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.

Answer: 
It could be a rewrites problem. Can you post the WordPress relevant section of your .htaccess file?
Please check if the scripts and the directory can be read and executed by the webserver·
I'm assuming you're using a lamp system.

check if the permissions for the directory and scripts are set to r-x for everyone.