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Re: Apache won't die

Hello Brian

Brian Blood wrote: 
tried that since this last message and sync never completes.
that makes me think it's something lower level.

If a process can not be killed with root privileges, then it is probably waiting for some disk I/O, which could also be from a remote filesystem like NFS. This can hang for ever and most often only be solved with a reboot.

If this process only make access to the local filesytem, then this could be a bad block on the disk, maybe fsck in single user could solve or find this.

Can you still write to this filesystem, eg. with 'touch foobar'? If not, the file system is read only, a reboot should solve it.

I've taken to ssh'ing into the server, and issuing the following:

sync &
reboot -n

Probably you need to do the brutal approach with 'reboot -n -q', see the manpage of reboot for details. It would be a good idea to manually stop other programs which need to write to the disk (eg. close files like databases) on exit.


bye
Fabian
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