Subject: Re: [vserver] Zombie vserver
From: Vladislav Geller <vladislav.geller@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:01:04 +0100
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:01:04 +0100
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Bendtsen, Jon <Jon.Bendtsen@laerdal.dk>wrote:

> Does it respond to ping?
>
>
Nope - i can only access it from the host machine


> Does it have open files? Maybe you can kill (almost) every process in it
> by killing one at a time?
>
>
I can not kill the processes via kill or vkill. Can you tell me how to see
what open files it's accessing?


> after that you might be able to change the ID number and start it up again.
>
>
Maybe you could also elaborate on how i would be able to do that?

Thanks!


>
> JonB
>
> On 10/01/2012, at 13.46, Vladislav Geller wrote:
> >
> > Hello Eveyone,
> >
> > I have a hanging vserver (well i can user vserver  - enter to get to it)
> >
> > I have tried to kill the hanging processes within the server via kill
> and vkill --xid 20343 -s 9 from the host - but to no avail.
> >
> > I have other vservers running on the machine and would not like to
> restart it.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what else i can try?
> >
> > This is the output on a vserver restart;
> >
> > lvs000:/var/lib/vservers# vserver myvserver.int restart
> > vkill: vc_ctx_kill(): No such process
> > 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:
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Vladislav Geller

Tel. +41 79 947 77 72




On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Bendtsen, Jon <Jon.Bendtsen@laerdal.dk> wrote:
Does it respond to ping?


Nope - i can only access it from the host machine
 
Does it have open files? Maybe you can kill (almost) every process in it by killing one at a time?


I can not kill the processes via kill or vkill. Can you tell me how to see what open files it's accessing?  
 
after that you might be able to change the ID number and start it up again.


Maybe you could also elaborate on how i would be able to do that?

Thanks! 
 

JonB

On 10/01/2012, at 13.46, Vladislav Geller wrote:
>
> Hello Eveyone,
>
> I have a hanging vserver (well i can user vserver  - enter to get to it)
>
> I have tried to kill the hanging processes within the server via kill and vkill --xid 20343 -s 9 from the host - but to no avail.
>
> I have other vservers running on the machine and would not like to restart it.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what else i can try?
>
> This is the output on a vserver restart;
>
> lvs000:/var/lib/vservers# vserver myvserver.int restart
> vkill: vc ctx kill(): No such process
> 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:







--
Vladislav Geller

Tel. +41 79 947 77 72