I have tried to set a timeout on the stop method, but Solaris still hangs on shutdown/reboot.
The problem occurred when I tried to use the Oracle SMF packaged (ora-smf) from Joost Mulders together with Solaris 10 running on a VMware server. The vmware-tools running in legacy mode removes the network interface early in the shutdown phase and then the Oracle listener service cannot be contacted and shutdown nicely. The stop method of ora-smf then assumes that the service is already down and exits with SMF_EXIT_OK. But the Oracle listener process is still running. The result is that Solaris will not shutdown - it hangs. Timeout on the stop method didn't help on that. I then modified the stop method to actually kill the listener process before exiting with SMF_EXIT_OK. Then Solaris was able to shutdown without hanging. This was on Solaris 10 Update 3. /Ole This message posted from opensolaris.org
