I've installed the clock_dunix patches on my OSF/1 3.2 system, and
recently rlogind left a couple of bogus login entries in wtmp for a
couple
of logins. After those bogus entries started hanging around, comsat
(running as the user listed in the bogus wtmp entries) started hanging
in
state "U" (uninterruptable sleep). After a time, the user complained
because he was unable to run any more processes and I couldn't kill the
hanging comsat's at all.
When I used shutdown to try to gracefully take the system down, it too
hung in state "U" :-(
The only other patches to this system were the security patches released
last fall. Are there any patches for comsat and shutdown that I have
missed? I've checked the osf/v3.2 directory on ftp.service.digital.com,
and there doesn't seem to be anything specific to this problem listed in
that directory.
Thanks for any help,
Guy Helmer
Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer_at_alpha.dsu.edu
Received on Mon Mar 18 1996 - 17:45:37 NZST