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

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:26:49AM +1000, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> 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.

Please DON'T REBOOT YET, as you may have found a kernel bug and it'd
be good to gather some debugging info first.

More info in a moment.

> 
> thanks,


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Martin Pool, Linuxcare, Inc.
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mbp at linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/
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