Re: Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Waldner
(not at the office today, I hope I got the reply right nonetheless) Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >Well, it would be perfect if you could reproduce this. Try something like: >If this prints "Caught SIGCLD" then that is a severe kernel bug. >Try both "cc foo.c" and "cc foo.c -lpthread" please.

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.12.29 16:20, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:30:27 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>No, kill(-1, SIGWHATEVER) is guaranteed to kill all processes >>/except/ the caller. "man 2 kill" on any unix/linux box. What kernel >>are you using, this might be a kernel bug. Is this an i386 o

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:30:27 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>No, kill(-1, SIGWHATEVER) is guaranteed to kill all processes >>/except/ the caller. "man 2 kill" on any unix/linux box. What kernel >>are you using, this might be a kernel bug. Is this an i386 or >>another architecture ? >2.4.27, from

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:02:16 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: >> So to me it seems like "signal(SIGSTOP, SIG_IGN);" either isn't >> honored, and killall5 itself killed, or else it kills something else >> essential, but what could that be? >No, kill(-1, SIGWHATEVER) is guaranteed to kill all

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.12.28 17:42, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:40:48 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>>Hmm, can it be that killall5 doesn't actually manage to *not* kill >>> itself? >>Ofcourse it goes through great lengths to do exactly that - NOT >>kill itself. It kills all processes _except_ it

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:40:48 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>>Hmm, can it be that killall5 doesn't actually manage to *not* kill >>> itself? >>Ofcourse it goes through great lengths to do exactly that - NOT >>kill itself. It kills all processes _except_ itself and its >>caller. >Any hints on wha

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:25:43 GMT, "Miquel van Smoorenburg" writes: I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem is that it's not rebooting, eg if I call `reboot` or `telinit 6`, it starts sending out TERM and KILL signals, and everything is stopping,

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:25:08 +0100, John Smith writes: >>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: >>> I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem > >> It must be one of the most men

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:25:08 +0100, John Smith writes: >On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: >> I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem > It must be one of the most mentioned boxes on these lists, a >distinction I wouldn't crave, as it's manufactu

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem It must be one of the most mentioned boxes on these lists, a distinction I wouldn't crave, as it's manufacturer... (Hey, HP, are you listening? You are using Debian inh

Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem is that it's not rebooting, eg if I call `reboot` or `telinit 6`, it starts sending out TERM and KILL signals, and everything is stopping, up to and including klogd and syslogd. Then, instead of writing "Rebooting...