Ron, Please, verify what is the PID (process ID) are running the ghost process.
After this verification, run 'lsof -p PID' and verify which the files are open. Understanding which files are open, you can remove file permissions or debug the problem. If you can, send-me the result of lsof command. Have you tried "kill -15" ?? Regards, Fernando Gieseler _________________________________________ Technical Sales Specialist for System z - Linux and z/VM - IBM Brasil fone: +55-51-2131-5848 cel: +55-51-9988-8177 fax: +55-51-2131-5875 ITN: 5 759-5848 T/L: 759-5848 [email protected] From: Ron Foster at Baldor-IS <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 06/04/2010 12:02 Subject: Re: Unable to kill process Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 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
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