On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:33:44AM -0500, Chuck wrote:
> there is something in my system that updated recently that has since broken 
> vserver's ability to report shutting down guests. I get this kind of report 
> on every type of guest. it also appears to be a random thing. other times i 
> shut guests down and i get no errors. this variable behavior was only noticed 
> yesterday because we are moving physical drives around so we have had to 
> stop/start the server otherwise we may not stop any for months. it also waits 
> the 'timeout' time before reporting.
> 
> as in example below, after this message i try a vps ax|grep 3910 and i find 
> no 
> processes with that context running! an immediate restart is error free.
> 
> valkyrie boinc # vserver cacti stop
> A timeout occured while waiting for the vserver to finish and it will
> be killed by sending a SIGKILL signal. The following process list
> might be useful for finding out the reason of this behavior:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 14685  3910 cacti         ?        Ss     0:00 init [3]
> 15181  3910 cacti         ?        Ss     0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
> 15245  3910 cacti         ?        Ssl    0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/named -u named 
> -n 
> 4 -t /var/bind
> 15265  3910 cacti         ?        Ss     0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -D 
> DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 -d /usr/lib64/apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -k 
> start
> 15266  3910 cacti         ?        S      0:00  |   \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -D 
> DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 -d /usr/lib64/apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -k 
> start
> 15312  3910 cacti         ?        Sl     0:00  |   \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -D 
> DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 -d /usr/lib64/apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -k 
> start
> 15313  3910 cacti         ?        Sl     0:00  |   \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -D 
> DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 -d /usr/lib64/apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -k 
> start
> 15310  3910 cacti         ?        Ss     0:01  \_ /usr/sbin/clamd
> 15327  3910 cacti         ?        Ss     0:00  \_ /usr/bin/freshclam -d
> 15468  3910 cacti         ?        Ss     0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/cron
> 15539  3910 cacti         ?        Ds     0:00  \_ /sbin/shutdown -r 0 w
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Vserver '/etc/vservers/cacti' still running unexpectedly; please investigate 
> it manually...

maybe it takes quite long (timeout +/- something)
and thus, the timeout strikes sometimes ...

I observed similar with qmail, which is quite
strange in shutdown behaviour, especially when
combined with other services ...

(read: it can take between 1 and 10 minutes to
do a proper shutdown)

just and idea,
Herbert

> essentially when it behaves like this, every shutdown says it is still
> running does anyone in gentoo-vserver land have any clue what may be
> causing this apparently false report?
> 
> my util-vserver version is 0.30.212-r2
> 
> kernel version
> 
> 2.6.19-vs2.2.0-rc2
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chuck
> 
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