Non responsive state for systemd

[Steve Clark]

On 03/06/2013 07:08 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 06.03.13 06:55, Steve Clark (sclark at netwolves.com) wrote:
>
>> On 03/04/2013 07:05 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> On Mon, 04.03.13 10:24, David Highley (dhighley at highley-recommended.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Lennart Poettering wrote:"
>>>>> On Mon, 04.03.13 07:56, David Highley (dhighley at highley-recommended.com) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Twice now we have one Fedora 18 system where systemd seems to get into a
>>>>>> non responsive state. We are not able to get the status of any service
>>>>>> and we're not able to do an init 6 to restart the system.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did notice today that a full process list showed a message about abrt
>>>>>> and something to the effect "nobody cared". We also see a number of
>>>>>> defunct processes that seem to never clear. So far the only remedy we
>>>>>> have found is a hard power cycle.
>>>>> Can you get a stack trace of PID1? "sudo pstack 1" should already give a
>>>>> hint, but even better would be a a "bt full" via gdb.
>>>> We are offsite right now so will dig deeper later. We had checked the
>>>> log files and noticed that it complains about rsyncd not being able to
>>>> connect to a port and there was another complaint about Gnome. The
>>>> rsync one repeats as there are back ups that are not being serviced
>>>> which is is what alerted to something being wrong. We are sending and
>>>> receiving email from this system. It also has an internal web, mysql,
>>>> and other subsystems which seem to work fine. So when this state occurs
>>>> it sometimes takes a while to notice.
>>> This is a bug in libselinux:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901812
>> This is exact reason you don't make the most important user space program dependent on a lot of other stuff!
> True thing. libselinux is a library we really really should avoid
> linking against. I mean, it's almost as bad as libc, we really should
> avoid linking against that from PID 1 too. Oh man, those systemd guys
> are such idiots that they dare to link against libc and
> libselinux!
>
> Lennart
Well you can be as sarcastic as you want but I have been using UNIX/Linux since 1985 and never had init hang or die on me.


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