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

[Sven Joachim]

reassign 548863 udev
found 548863 146-3
reassign 548694 udev
found 548694 146-3
forcemerge 549702 548694 548863
thanks

On 2009-10-06 21:00 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> 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.

After upgrading udev to 146-5 and rebooting, everything works fine
again, so I suppose udev was in fact the culprit.  Also the
wpa_supplicant problem in #548694 is gone now, that was probably caused
by the bad signal mask in udev 146-3 as well.

Merging all these bugs,
Sven