[Bug 1043332] Re: Upstart jobs can enter “zombie” state that require reboot

2014-02-13 Thread Cameron Norman
Can you clarify? What I am hearing is that the job is alive, but the process is dead. initctl stop salt-master does not work because the process is not actually running. Perhaps if Upstart tries to stop a job, and the process is not running, that job can be considered stopped/killed. -- You recei

[Bug 1043332] Re: Upstart jobs can enter “zombie” state that require reboot

2012-08-29 Thread Armin Ronacher
The pid wraparound trick works btw. I got it to start applications until it spawned a new dummy with that pid: https://gist.github.com/d55199e9b1ad7fc65504 Interestingly enough the pid shown in the status message was not the pid that it actually tried to kill. I suppose the problem is that on sa