Re: [leafnode-list] Cannot obtain lock file, aborting.

["Michael O'Quinn" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Matthias Andree wrote:

> "Michael O'Quinn" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Unless I'm completely blowing smoke, "kill -HUP" IS the way to gracefully
> > stop fetchnews.
> 
> Strange weed that you had in your pipe. kill -HUP is as good as kill
> -KILL and should not be used.

I guess I just walked right into that one, didn't I?

> 
> If fetchnews 1.9.29 should really hang (process state "D" for _D_eep
> Sleep does not qualify, that's beyond any user space to handle) after
> kill -TERM or kill -INT (these are equivalent to fetchnews), I'd like to
> see a stack backtrace. See the FAQ at
> http://mandree.home.pages.de/leafnode/FAQ.html for how to obtain one.

Obviously I am doing this all wrong.  I thought we had discussed this 
previously on the list, but I can't find anything in the archives, so your 
guess is as good as mine about pipe content.

I'll change to SIGTERM, and drop the SIGKILL.  I'll also report on any 
permanent hangs.  It turns out that the hard disk problem had been 
creeping up on me for some time, and it WAS on the disk mounted on 
/var/spool/news, so maybe that was the problem in the first place.

Also, I'm running version 1.9.21.rel.  Does that affect this discussion?

Cheers, and watch what you smoke!
Michael


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