Re: Zombie vserver

Does it respond to ping?

Does it have open files? Maybe you can kill (almost) every process in it by killing one at a time?

after that you might be able to change the ID number and start it up again.


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: