Re: [Vserver] gentoo update breaks shutdowns?

On Sunday 11 March 2007 12:46, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:33:44AM -0500, Chuck wrote:
> > there is something in my system that updated recently that has since
broken
> > vserver's ability to report shutting down guests. I get this kind of
report
> > on every type of guest. it also appears to be a random thing. other times
i
> > shut guests down and i get no errors. this variable behavior was only
noticed
> > yesterday because we are moving physical drives around so we have had to
> > stop/start the server otherwise we may not stop any for months. it also
waits
> > the 'timeout' time before reporting.
> >
> > as in example below, after this message i try a vps ax|grep 3910 and i
find no
> > processes with that context running! an immediate restart is error free.
> >
> > valkyrie boinc # vserver cacti stop
> > A timeout occured while waiting for the vserver to finish and it will
> > be killed by sending a SIGKILL signal. The following process list
> > might be useful for finding out the reason of this behavior:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 14685 3910 cacti ? Ss 0:00 init [3]
> > 15181 3910 cacti ? Ss 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/syslog-ng
> > 15245 3910 cacti ? Ssl 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/named -u
named -n
> > 4 -t /var/bind
> > 15265 3910 cacti ? Ss 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -D
> > DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 -d /usr/lib64/apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -k
> > start
> > 15266 3910 cacti ? S 0:00 |
\_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -D
> > DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 -d /usr/lib64/apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -k
> > start
> > 15312 3910 cacti ? Sl 0:00 |
\_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -D
> > DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 -d /usr/lib64/apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -k
> > start
> > 15313 3910 cacti ? Sl 0:00 |
\_ /usr/sbin/apache2 -D
> > DEFAULT_VHOST -D PHP5 -d /usr/lib64/apache2 -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -k
> > start
> > 15310 3910 cacti ? Ss 0:01 \_ /usr/sbin/clamd
> > 15327 3910 cacti ? Ss 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/freshclam -d
> > 15468 3910 cacti ? Ss 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/cron
> > 15539 3910 cacti ? Ds 0:00 \_ /sbin/shutdown -r 0 w
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Vserver '/etc/vservers/cacti' still running unexpectedly; please
investigate
> > it manually...
>
> maybe it takes quite long (timeout +/- something)
> and thus, the timeout strikes sometimes ...
>

its an idea... however even nameserver guests that do nothing but run named
which normally shut down very fast take a reasonably long time and many times
error out.

> I observed similar with qmail, which is quite
> strange in shutdown behaviour, especially when
> combined with other services ...
>

qmail is odd... unless you want to wait for it to finish whatever it is doing,
the only way is an explicit kill.

> (read: it can take between 1 and 10 minutes to
> do a proper shutdown)
>
> just and idea,

thanks! will look for the timeout config and try extending it a bit

> Herbert
>
> > essentially when it behaves like this, every shutdown says it is still
> > running does anyone in gentoo-vserver land have any clue what may be
> > causing this apparently false report?
> >
> > my util-vserver version is 0.30.212-r2
> >
> > kernel version
> >
> > 2.6.19-vs2.2.0-rc2
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
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>

-- 
Chuck
"...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger,
and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath
or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose 
for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. "
The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book
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