Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

2017-12-31 Thread Daniel Povey
edgement (sysvinit-utils: > /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing > shutdown)"): > > We're going to check it out early next week, whether it still applies. > > > > The bug it fixes is a situation where pidof reaches a process that's

Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

2017-12-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Povey writes ("Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)"): > We're going to check it out early next week, whether it still applies. > > The bug it fixes is a situation where pidof reach

Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

2017-12-30 Thread Daniel Povey
tasks or shutdown. On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Ian Jackson < ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + patch > > Daniel Povey writes ("Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: > /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points

Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

2017-12-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Control: tags -1 + patch Daniel Povey writes ("Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)"): > No-one ever responded to this thread (years ago). > We have just noticed the same problem on a newer v

Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

2017-12-30 Thread Daniel Povey
Guys, No-one ever responded to this thread (years ago). We have just noticed the same problem on a newer version of Debian and we are going to dig up our old patch and use it. This is an issue for services like rpcbind for which systemd uses the older SysV init scripts. Dan On Sat, Aug 10,

Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

2013-08-10 Thread Daniel Povey
I am sending a patch to the source of killall5 that I am using locally. It basically ignores all processes in a D or Z state (or states where D or Z appear in the string). This is of course not ideal, but it works for me. I found that not all machines where I had stuck processes, would cause