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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Killing the printer daemon
Message-ID: <8707@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 01:32:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.8707
Posted: Wed Sep 23 01:32:44 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 00:48:29 EDT
References: <2419@drivax.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <2419@drivax.UUCP> braun@drivax.UUCP (Kral) writes:
>... But when shutdown occurrs, I get the "something won't die" message,
>and /usr won't unmount.
>After rebooting and recreating the situation, I tried to kill the daemon
>manually with kill -9.  It just won't die.  So what's an admin to do?

Fix the kernel bug.  The process is hung in some driver close()
routine.  These have a tendency not to be thoroughly tested, and
to break under unusual conditions.

If you ever get a process stuck such that not even shutdown clears
it, this is a kernel bug---not necessarily a serious one, but a
bug nonetheless.

> System:
> 	Vax 11/780, Berkeley Unix 4.2, RP07, RM03, No Network.

Well, at least you (should) have source.  You might try switching to
4.3BSD, which has numerous bugs fixed over 4.2BSD.
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