Daniel Povey writes ("Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)"): > We're going to check it out early next week, whether it still applies. > > The bug it fixes is a situation where pidof reaches a process that's in a bad > state such as D or Z, that might have an executable on a stuck mount point or > something like that, and gets stuck, preventing system maintenance tasks or > shutdown.
Yes. The principle of the patch LGTM. Hence my tagging the bug accordingly. Thanks for your persistence. Ian.