From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 7 15:39:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA09368 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 15:39:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zot.io.org (root@zot.io.org [198.133.36.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA09363 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 15:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by zot.io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA01859 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 18:37:47 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: zot.io.org: taob owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 18:37:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: 'ps' or procfs stuck in disk wait??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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"