Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 15 Feb 1997 15:49:05 GMT | Subject | Re: Behavior under swap catastrophe? | From | (Ray Auchterlounie) |
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In article <e5lnbi.5v7@bigred.inka.de> Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> wrote: [...] >If init ever dies, the system is toast and needs the reset button. >Even a clean shutdown is impossible, since nothing will wait() for >exited processes, their process table slots and therefore their >working directories remain in zombie state, and umount fails.
mount -ro remount
Might get you a clean shutdown - I've found it works sometimes when a process fails to die. A working "umount -f" would be nicer...
ray
-- Ray Auchterlounie <rda@kythera.demon.co.uk> "Forty Two! Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
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