Re: Sarge box not rebooting..
In article <[🔎] 200412271202.iBRC23UR006573@beren.intern.coretec.at>,
Robert Waldner <rw@coretec.at> wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:25:08 +0100, John Smith writes:
>>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
>>> I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem
>
>><rant> It must be one of the most mentioned boxes on these lists, a
>>distinction I wouldn't crave, as it's manufacturer... (Hey, HP, are you
>>listening? You are using Debian inhouse, why don't you contribute a bit
>>more, we are convinced of the hardware quality!) </rant>
>
>Tell me about it :( - unfortunately I've no control whatsoever about
> the choice of hardware.
>
>>As it's not even displaying "Rebooting", did you check
>>the /etc/init.d/reboot permissions? How about calling it directly with
>>a sh -x?
>
>It doesn't come as far. I've checked further, and what's holding it up
> is /etc/rc6.d/S20sendsigs, the `killall5 -15`. I strace'd it, and the
> last thing I get is "rt_sigaction(-1, SIGSTOP" (note the missing ")").
Ofcourse, by then the strace process is sigSTOPped too. Heisenbug.
> If I background both killall5's, it comes as far as "Saving random
> seed... done", eg S30urandom finishes.
>
>Hmm, can it be that killall5 doesn't actually manage to *not* kill
> itself?
Ofcourse it goes through great lengths to do exactly that - NOT
kill itself. It kills all processes _except_ itself and its
caller.
>This would be a quite grave bug.
Ehm, no. Wrong conclusion.
Mike.
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