[lxc-users] zombie process blocks stopping of container

Tamas Papp tompos at martos.bme.hu
Tue Jun 3 14:56:03 UTC 2014


On 06/03/2014 04:50 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> lxc-stop will send SIGPWR (or the equivalent signal) to the container,
> wait 30s then SIGKILL init. lxc-stop -k will skip the SIGPWR step,
> lxc-stop --nokill will skip the SIGKILL step.
>
> It's pretty odd that init after a kill -9 is still marked running... I'd
> have expected it to either go away or get stuck in D state if
> something's really wrong...
>
> Do you see anything relevant in the kernel log?

Nothing. I was in hurry, so I restarted the whole machine, I cannot 
collect more information.
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure it will be back soon, since this was not 
the first time.
What do you suggest, what should I check, when I face it again?


10x
tamas


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