Re: daemontools-0.76, AIX 5.2: problem restarting service

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:42:35AM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:

> > I know that one supervise process was killed, the one supervising
> > the service /service/enable-printers.
> Then it's possible there may be two instances of the service running.

I did check for that, and only one instance was running.

> > /service/clear-errors: down 4462 seconds, normally up, want up
> > /service/dsmcad: up (pid 766010) 783525 seconds
> > /service/enable-printers: up (pid 360594) 1081 seconds
> > /service/nmbd: up (pid 774230) 776558 seconds
> > /service/qmail-send: up (pid 704574) 775375 seconds
> > /service/qmail-smtpd: down 1198531 seconds
> > /service/smbd: up (pid 823454) 776558 seconds
> > /service/umclient: up (pid 184372) 1198531 seconds
> > /service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 167974) 1198531 seconds
> > /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 278668) 1198531 seconds
> > /service/umclient/log: up (pid 274568) 1198531 seconds
> 
> You should check /service/*/log too.

I did, look at the last three lines of the provided output. :-)

> > # truss -p 188608
> > _poll(0x00000000, 0, 0)         (sleeping...)
> > Pstatus: process is not stopped
> AFAICT, this shouldn't be possible.  But maybe your kernel exhibits
> bugs after running out of memory.  svc -t might help; rebooting also
> might not be a bad idea.

I've seen this happen once before on this machine. A svc -d / svc -u
fixed the problem. I left it "want up" for now since it's not a critical
service and I'd like to diagnose the problem.

Thanks,
-- 
Jurjen Oskam

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