From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 7 18:30:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA17359 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 18:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA17342 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 18:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id DAA12597; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:28:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id DAA10015; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:28:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id DAA01911; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:23:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604080123.DAA01911@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 'ps' or procfs stuck in disk wait??? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 03:23:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Apr 7, 96 06:37:47 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Tao wrote: > with the pwd_mkdb and ps processes. When I arrived, it was sitting in > single-user mode with init's "some processes would not die; ps axl > advised" message. > > Is this error really necessary? It normally goes back to single-user, or reboots cleanly, even despite of this message. Your hang must have been somewhere deeper. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)