Re: amrecover usage with chg-robot

Am 27.05.22 um 14:05 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway:
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:28:09 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> After that both tar and gzip.binary are shown as <defunct> in ps,
>> whatever that means.
> 
> Okay, that's a little progress in the investigation.
> 
> "<defunct>" means that the process has exited, but the return code from
> the process has not been read by the parent process yet.  So in this
> case, whatever process spawned the tar and gzip subprocesses is not
> "noticing" when the subprocesses finish... the question is why (and what
> is it stuck doing instead of cleaning up)?
> 
> Are the "openssl enc" and/or encription-wrapper-script processes still
> out there at this time (and what state are they in)?
> 
> You should be able to use pstree or "ps -ef" to determine which process
> is the parent (PPID column) of the defunct subprocesses.

Yes, that parent process was still visible.

I will retry that later, currently I am updating stuff on that server etc

to add complexity: this is a rather old server with gentoo linux on it, 
a bit neglected because it should have been replaced long ago)