Re: unkillable process ?
Re: unkillable process ?
- Subject: Re: unkillable process ?
- From: Paul Ripke <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 12:45:03 +1000
On Saturday, Apr 5, 2003, at 05:44 Australia/Sydney, Pejvan BEIGUI
wrote:
email@hidden wrote:
<snip>
What you asked for [with that shutdown command] was not to reboot the
machine, but instead to bring it back down to single-user-mode. Two
things of note about that:
1. the un-interruptible process will still be blocked, more than
likely, unless the shutdown killed off the facility that it was
blocked waiting on (not likely).
2. Mac OS X/Darwin does not like being brought down to single-user
mode after it was already running in multi-user-mode. Many of the
key system services are implemented in user space. Bringing the
system down to single-user-mode killed those off. The IPC messages
you see are because you killed off the mach_init process that manages
the namespace of public mach ports. But you also killed off the
dynamic pager, which manages your swap files, and it doesn't like to
get restarted either.
You probably wanted "shutdown -r now" where the "-r" is to force a
reboot.
well, after being unsuccessfull with "sudo shutdown -r now" "sudo
reboot" "kill -9 -1" and Apple Menu > Log Out, I tried the "sudo
shutdown".
Not sure what effect it will have, but you can always try "sudo reboot",
or "sudo reboot -q". Not sure if they'll work, but if they do, at least
they should flush the FS cache.
Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA
101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin:
68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late.
-- Koos van den Hout
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