[H-GEN] a process that won't die

[Daniel Quinlan]

hi,

   I upgraded one of our machines to Debian 2.2 the other night and the upgrade 
   of pidentd attempted to create a new user called ident

   for some reason useradd hung and I had to manually create the user.

   it was only today when I went to add a new user that I found the process
   was still running and nothing seems to be able to kill it.

host:~# ps aux | grep useradd | grep -v grep
root     23021  0.0  0.7  1432  672 ?        D    Oct03   0:00 useradd -d /var/run/identd -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 100 identd
host:~# kill 23021
host:~# ps aux | grep useradd | grep -v grep
root     23021  0.0  0.7  1432  672 ?        D    Oct03   0:00 useradd -d /var/run/identd -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 100 identd
host:~# kill -9 23021
host:~# ps aux | grep useradd | grep -v grep
root     23021  0.0  0.7  1432  672 ?        D    Oct03   0:00 useradd -d /var/run/identd -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 100 identd
host:~# kill -15 23021
host:~# ps aux | grep useradd | grep -v grep
root     23021  0.0  0.7  1432  672 ?        D    Oct03   0:00 useradd -d /var/run/identd -g nogroup -s /bin/false -u 100 identd
host:~# 

   I'm going to reboot the box for a kernel upgrade anyway, but I was wondering
   if anyone knew what could cause this.

thanks,
-- 
Daniel Quinlan				daniel at netwise.net.au
Netwise Australia			ph:  07 3252 8111
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