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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 - process_session-helper breaks /sbin/killall5
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:47:34 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:47:34 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
>
> > 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?

D'Oh!.  It took me about 3 days to get around to building -rc2-mm2, and I
*did* check the hotfix directory first, and all that was there was a powerpc
patch.  Apparently the one I needed got dropped into that directory about 2
hours later. :)

Is working now. :)


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