RE: Unkillable Background process "SHUTDOWN ABORT LEAVES UNKILLABLE

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:

> Reboot and open a TAR.

I would preserve the evidence as long as is practical, and open a ticket with Sun. There should not be a sustained condition in Solaris during which a process is unkillable with SIGKILL. If you open a TAR, this is probably what they will tell you. What is the state of the unkillable processes according to the ps command?

Does Solaris have a kernel debug mode? If so, and if the state of the process is 'U' (uninterruptible, meaning it is in a system call), you should be able to attach to the running Solaris kernel and get a thread trace of the unkillable process's system thread that will help Sun diagnose the problem.

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> -----Original Message-----

> Sent: 31 October 2002 15:43

> 

> When I do shutdown abort my LGWR and CKPT still around and also kill -9 

> cannot get rid of them anyone know why ?


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