Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750863AbWJ1Erl (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:47:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750883AbWJ1Erl (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:47:41 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:17588 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750863AbWJ1Erk (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:47:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:47:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Cedric Le Goater , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 - process_session-helper breaks /sbin/killall5 Message-Id: <20061027214734.baf647cf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200610280318.k9S3Ie72012885@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <20061020015641.b4ed72e5.akpm@osdl.org> <200610280318.k9S3Ie72012885@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1926 Lines: 41 On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:18:39 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:56:41 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc2/2.6.19-rc2-mm2/ > > > +add-process_session-helper-routine.patch > > +add-process_session-helper-routine-deprecate-old-field.patch > > +add-process_session-helper-routine-deprecate-old-field-tidy.patch > > +add-process_session-helper-routine-deprecate-old-field-fix-warnings.patch > > +add-process_session-helper-routine-deprecate-old-field-fix-warnings-2.patch > > +rename-struct-namespace-to-struct-mnt_namespace.patch > > +add-an-identifier-to-nsproxy.patch > > +rename-struct-pspace-to-struct-pid_namespace.patch > > +add-pid_namespace-to-nsproxy.patch > > +use-current-nsproxy-pid_ns.patch > > +add-child-reaper-to-pid_namespace.patch > > > > Start work on virtualising process sessions. > > Sorry for the delay in spotting this one sooner (and I'm surprised apparently > nobody else has). Was busy, didn't get a chance to bisect it at all till > today, and I only got as far as "one of the above patches". > > System works fine, except when you go to shutdown. When it hits the /sbin/killall5 > call in /etc/init.d/halt, it kills *all* the processes, and we get a > nice message 'INIT: no more processes in current runlevel', and we're dead in > the water. Checking with alt-sysrg-T shows that in fact, the only things > left running are the various kernel threads. As near as I can tell, killall5 > wasn't able to tell that its parent process was part of its process group, > so didn't refrain from killing it. > > Any ideas/clues? did you apply the hotfixes? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/