We have having the exact same issue, luckily it's a single session that
hangs (only a single root owned session in utwho -ac, and it's been :11.  I
have an open ticket with Oracle about this issue.  Anyone found a way to
clear those root owned sessions?

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Nicolás <[email protected]> wrote:

> El 23/09/2014 a las #4, Nicolás escribió:
>
>> That's something I've not tried yet and it's a good idea, I'll try to
>> trace the traffic for that client and verify what kind of traffic is being
>> sent between client and server. I've seen this is an issue that formerly
>> appeared in 2010 but has not a clear diagnosis yet, and I don't know
>> clearly how to force it for reproduction, but indeed once I do I'll try and
>> post some updates.
>>
>> I've seen a similar issue on a blog which talks about some mess with the
>> ARP table on the server side (http://www.planetgeek.ch/
>> 2012/04/02/sunray-terminal-unexpected-reboot/). I'll try to check the
>> ARP table as well and see if it helps determining the problem.
>>
>
> Today we've been "lucky" and had about 8-9 clients hung with this issue,
> so I tried further tests and here are the conclussions:
>
> * Yesterday we had upgraded from 5.4.0 to 5.4.3, obviously this didn't fix
> the issue.
> * The ARP table issue has nothing to do with this. The ARP table is ok.
> * Even using 'utsession -k -t', the hung client keeps sending KeepAlive
> packets like these:
>
>    keepAliveReq _=1 byteCount=0 connTime=5722.63
> fw=11.1.3.0_26_2013.10.28.09.53,Boot:MfgPkg_4.15_2006.07.
> 20.16.57;\0402006.07.20-17:04:56-PDT hw=SunRayP8 idleTime=5308.54
> latency=869 lossCount=0 namespace=IEEE802 pktCount=0 pn=38837
> sn=00144f3c8156 state=connected.
>
> * We discovered we can have a list of hung clients via the 'utwho'
> command, as these are marked as 'root' sessions.
>
>  33 pseudo.00144fXXXXXX                  root
>  34 pseudo.00144fXXXXXX                  root
>  36 pseudo.00144fXXXXXX                  root
>  37 pseudo.00144fXXXXXX                  root
>  38 pseudo.00144fXXXXXX                  root
>  39 pseudo.00144fXXXXXX                  root
>  40 pseudo.00144fXXXXXX                  root
>
> * What is even more worrying: Today I had an idle client just near me for
> about 1 hour, it simply destroyed the GDM greeter and stucked at the 26D
> screen, without any human action.
>
> * I guess an 'utsession -k -t' command would destroy the session, but
> despite this the client would follow sending the above keepalive packets. I
> don't know whether this could be fixed killing the corresponding GDM
> process for a client? However, I don't know either how to know which gdm
> process is attached to a user session, is that possible to know?
>
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Greg Rodenhiser
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College of the Holy Cross
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