On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 09:37:26 +0800, Yun-Chih Chen said: > Does anyone know of any hacks that remove a D-state dead process whose > parent is pid=1 (actually systemd), without rebooting?
The problem is that D state means that the process is in the middle of a system call. That means that kernel resources are probably locked and/or there's a deadlock or the syscall is waiting for an event that will never happen. There's no really good safe way of fixing this without rebooting - mostly because trying to patch kernel data structures to "free" the process without knowing exactly *why* it happened is a fool's errand. Things to do to gather data: 1) Check your dmesg/syslog for any WARN, BUG, or OOPS messages with tracebacks, which probably indicates the kernel bug that caused the problem. 2) cat /proc/NNN/stack will give you a hint where the syscall is wedged. After you got those, reboot. The serverfault link is about a different situation - a process that has exited, but no parent process has issued a wait() call to reap its exit status yet. Usually this means that the parent has exited, but for some reason the process hasn't been reparented to PID 1 (which is usually a /sbin/init of sysvinit or systemd flavor) and/or PID 1 has failed to notice the newly reparented process and reaped it.
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