On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:00:17PM -0500, Madog wrote: > Hi All: Hi Madog! > Periodically I get a weird restart issue with one of my guests > (I'm running Gnome in the guest, and have a encrypted mount > there too using EncFS) and I can no longer remote via X to the > guest (am using x2go). I can still access data on the guest > from the host and if I build a new guest and copy over ~/home > things function again. I'm using Debian Squeeze. > Output is shown below that shows I believe several errors > including "Perhaps there is a stale lock file?" at the end of > the restart….any suggestions? Thanks! > vserver VserverGuestXYZ stop > Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 6. > Shutting down ALSA...done (none loaded). > Stopping GNOME Display Manager: gdm. > Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon. > Checking for running unattended-upgrades: Asking all remaining processes to terminate...done. > Currently running processes (pstree): > init-+-cupsd-+-5016*[cpdftocps] > | |-1067*[cups-x2go] > | |-7349*[cupsd] > | `-6588*[pdftopdf] > `-rsyslogd---3*[{rsyslogd}] > Killing all remaining processes...failed. > Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd/usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver.stop: line 98: 12309 Killed "${IONICE_CMD[@]}" "${NICE_CMD[@]}" "${CHBIND_CMD[@]}" "$_VSPACE" --enter "$S_CONTEXT" "${OPTS_VSPACE[@]}" -- "$_VTAG" --migrate "${OPTS_VTAG_ENTER[@]}" --silent -- $_VCONTEXT $SILENT_OPT --migrate $OPT_VCONTEXT_CHROOT --xid "$S_CONTEXT" -- "${INITCMD_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: This means that the shutdown takes longer than the configured (maybe default) timeout, and util-vserver thus kills off the remaining guest processes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 12309 40031 VserverXYZ.domainname.com ? S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /etc/init.d/rc 6 > 12321 40031 VserverXYZ.domainname.com? S+ 0:00 \_ startpar -p 4 -t 20 - > 16483 40031 VserverXYZ.domainname.com ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /etc/init > 16600 40031 VserverXYZ.domainname.com ? S 0:00 \_ start-stop-da > 6111 40031 VserverXYZ.domainname.com? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c4 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > vserver VserverXYZ status > Vserver 'VserverXYZ' is stopped > vserver vserverXYZ start > Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 3. > Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd. > Loading cpufreq kernel modules...done (none). > CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...disabled, governor not available...done. > Starting periodic command scheduler: cron. > Starting NTP server: ntpd. > Starting system message bus: dbus. > Can't start Hardware abstraction layer - sysfs not mounted on /sys ... failed! > Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. > Cleaning up stale X2Go sessions. > Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm. > Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon. > Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdFATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-vserver-686/modules.dep: No such file or directory > FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-vserver-686/modules.dep: No such file or directory > FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-vserver-686/modules.dep: No such file or directory This suggests two things: first, you are running a rather old kernel, and second, the guest is not properly cleaned up, otherwise it would not mess around trying to find kernel modules. > . > Enabling additional executable binary formats: binfmt-supportFATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-vserver-686/modules.dep: No such file or directory > Cannot create link /etc/mtab~ > Perhaps there is a stale lock file? HTH, Herbert