Mark,
If kill -9 doesn't work then the process is in a system routine that can be cancelled.
Thanks for the info.
Did you have a problem with disks and/or nfs? (sap process needing to complete i/o?)
We happen to have the problem on another SAP application server as I am typing this. I have checked all the nfs mounts and they all appear to be working. I did not spot messages in /var/log/messages. The drives for this system are eckd. The storage guy has not notified me of any problems with the storage subsystem. The z/VM folks here do not have a z/VM console manager running, so we cannot see if there were any z/vm console messages come out. The storage guy is saying that since the storage subsystem did not phone home, the disks are ok.
thats a support question if ever I heard one. Contact SAP/IBM. (Which of course will lead to a question on maintenace levels of linux and sap.)
Since we are having the problem right now, I contacted our SAP basis manager and requested that he contact SAP. I will be opening an SR with Novell when I get finished with this e-mail. Looking at the time the process has been running in SAP, it looks like it started yesterday afternoon shortly after the other process. Different application server.
Are you saying that shutdown didn't work either and that you were forced to crash the linux guest?
Yes, I ended up logging onto the 3270 console. I did a init 1 to take it down to single user mode. The kill did not work, so I did the shutdown command. I let it sit a few minutes. The normal shutdown sequence not complete. So I ended up doing a #cp logoff.
were you alreday in shutdown?
The only shutdown was after I did the init 1. Thanks, Ron ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
