[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

Guys, I just want to give a bit more context that I've found out since then which might be relevant. As you probably know (but to document it here), if you set the variable PIDOF_NETFS or set the flag -n for 'pidof', it will avoid trying to stat files on NFS partitions. This will solve some of th

[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

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

[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#719273: sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown

pDaniel Povey] > 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