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: 
I second Colin's hunch of an issue with the rewrites. It is possible that either your .htaccess doesn't have the proper content or that your web server isn't allowing the use of mod\_rewrite rules.

Check with your hosting company / server administrator that your virtual host has permission to use mod\_wewrite and that the .htaccess looks something like this:

```
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

```
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.