[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#548863: Bug#548863: initscripts: sendsigs fails

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-09-30 11:06 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Sven Joachim]
>> Any clue why killall5 did not manage to kill it for good?
>
> I would assume the process is unkillable due to some kernel hang.
> killall5 simply call the kill(2) system call to signal processes to
> die.
>
> Your analysis make me believe sendsigs is correct, and the problem is
> between the kernel and the package with the process that fail to die,
> and this report should be reassigned elsewhere.

I suspect this is bug #549702 in udev, but I cannot test now because I'm
on a vacation, and the WLAN in my hotel is very flaky.  Will follow up
next week when I'm back home.

Sven