How to stop 'uninterruptible' process on Linux?

Question

I have a VirtualBox process hanging around which I tried to kill (KILL/ABORT) but without success. The parent pid is 1 (init).

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Answer 1

new here and not that experienced, but I had the same issue where I could see my processes going into uninterruptible sleep (D state) when I checked their status using htop. For some reason,

kill -9 

worked for me. Maybe you can try the same.

Edit: the detailed answer is up there by ostrokach (which I didn't see).