Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 18:37:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 'ps' or procfs stuck in disk wait??? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960407183159.1573h-100000@zot.io.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960407140423.1573a-100000@zot.io.org>
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On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, Brian Tao wrote:
>
> The system will be rebooting itself in about ten minutes, and I doubt
> I will be able to recreate this problem.
As it turns out, the server did not reboot itself... after it
tried to kill all running processes, it must have run into a problem
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? The machine is about to be
shutdown or rebooted anyway. It's a good thing I live fairly close to
work so I can come in and hit the reset key without going too much out
of my way. It could be disastrous if the machine was the only shell
server at a remote POP...
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
System and Network Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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