init problem
Hi,
All of a sudden out of the blue init decides to be nasty. I logged onto
my Sparc 5 and did a process list, I was presented with the following
response:
mail 9078 1 0 May31 ? 00:03:21 [exim <defunct>]
root 2556 1 0 Jun23 ? 00:02:57 [nmbd <defunct>]
root 2558 1 0 Jun23 ? 00:00:00 [nmbd <defunct>]
root 2561 1 0 Jun23 ? 00:00:08 [smbd <defunct>]
root 25796 1 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:09 [smbd <defunct>]
root 26328 1 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:02 [sshd <defunct>]
root 31042 1 0 Jun28 ? 00:00:00 [init <defunct>]
root 31749 1 0 Jun28 ? 00:08:07 [nmbd <defunct>]
root 31754 1 0 Jun28 ? 00:00:17 [smbd <defunct>]
chris 18691 1 0 Jul01 ? 00:00:17 [cc1 <defunct>]
sshd 6549 1 0 Jul04 ? 00:00:07 [sshd <defunct>]
root 6766 1 0 Jul04 ? 00:00:12 [apache <defunct>]
root 19226 1 0 Jul06 ? 00:00:01 [sshd <defunct>]
chris 19228 1 0 Jul06 ? 00:00:01 [sshd <defunct>]
mail 19750 1 0 Jul06 ? 00:00:00 [exim <defunct>]
mail 19756 1 0 Jul07 ? 00:00:00 [exim <defunct>]
mail 19800 1 0 Jul07 ? 00:00:00 [exim <defunct>]
chris 20085 1 0 Jul07 ? 00:00:03 [ssh <defunct>]
root 21126 1 0 Jul07 ? 00:00:35 [smbd <defunct>]
chris 21155 1 0 Jul07 ? 00:00:03 [ssh <defunct>]
chris 21471 1 0 Jul07 ? 00:00:03 [ssh <defunct>]
mail 23073 1 0 Jul08 ? 00:00:00 [exim <defunct>]
mail 23080 1 0 Jul08 ? 00:00:00 [exim <defunct>]
I am quite aware that once init has taken ownership of the process it is
quite impossible to kill it. I read somewhere that by switching to
single user mode then back again it may rectify the situation. Before
attempting to switch to init 1 I decided to attempt to restart init. On
issueing `telinit q` I got the following response:
telinit: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl
This box is running Debian Woody with the latest packages installed and
kernel 2.2.20. I know the solution is to reboot the box, but with an
uptime of 99 days I would rather fix it some other way. I do not
believe in rebooting boxes unless it is because of a relocation.
The reason I mention this is because I feel this must be a bug with
init, or something else and was wondering if anyone else had seen this.
Kind Regards,
Chris Mason
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