topic Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!! in Operating System - HP-UX

HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Shannon Petry — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:02:06 GMT

It all started when my super-done was running slow.

I saw alot of processes with 'ps -ef' so started killing things.

after 'kill -9 1' and that pesky process not dying I did 'init 1' and started killing more stuff.

I did notice that /usr was at 92%, so I moved /usr/lib to an external 2GB disk. About 1/2 way into the move the system just hung there.

Rebooting, I could not get a log in screen. I found some notes on booting to single user mode so that's what I did.

I could not mount any of my disks with wierd errors about libc.so.

Anyway, because init would not die with a kill -9, I renamed it to init.old.

Now I can not get the system even to boot into single user mode.

I tried to boot from net, but nothing happens. I know before the trouble started I had an internet connection.

What do I do?

Me!!!!11!!!!!!

This is a humerous post only, so feel free to add ;)

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

John Poff — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:05:13 GMT

Hi Shannon,

My guess is that your kill -9 on the init process has put it into a zombie state, which means that it's parent PID is 1. This means your init process is it's own parent, which puts it into the chicken/egg paradox loop. My suggestion is to try to contact it in the zombie state via your favorite psychic medium [mine is Miss Cleo] and tell it that it is really the child and to behave.

JP

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:25:10 GMT

Trying to kill process 1 is like trying to kill one's parents.

Here the one about the definition of chutzpah.

A man kills his mother and father, pleads mercy on the court 'cause he's an orphan.

SEP

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Bill Hassell — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:29:50 GMT

Check with the Mattel website. I think they may have something more suited to your skills. Look in the section titled: Fisher-Price.

As for the SuperDome, ask HP how to convert it to run Linux.

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

John Bolene — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:31:23 GMT

Got any old ignite tape handy?

Hopefully one from the machine that got nuked?

Better go look for it, because it is needed at this point.

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Martin Johnson — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:33:18 GMT

You've left too much evidence of your killings lying around. Use a degausser to clean things up!

:-)
Marty

P.S. Just make sure you use it on the right machine!

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:33:25 GMT

You could have saved a lot of time by just killing PID 0 =~()

I always say that my system's just fine - I don't want to swap it for anything.

Cheers,
Jeff

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:37:00 GMT

Hi Shannon!

That's good! Glad to know you don't (yet) need to find a new line of work :-))

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Shannon Petry — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:52:12 GMT

He now, It's a "SUPER-DONE", not a super dome. Intentionally named that way. ;)

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Duncan Edmonstone — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:34:30 GMT

Seems like your disks have become 'dirty'

A good scrub down with lots of hot soapy water should do the trick.... don't worry about the strange noises it makes, just remember to rinse throroughly after your done!

Either that or litigation with HP for not posting large messages to the front of the superdome reading 'DO NOT TERMINATE THE INIT PROCESS'

Cheers!

Duncan

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:00:26 GMT

Hi (again) Shannon:

Which pun:

"Super-Done" == well-toasted (?)

...or...

"Super-Done" == Ya-did-a-good-job (?)

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Martin Johnson — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:01:28 GMT

Super-Done? Was it irradiated?

Electron particle beam works best! Especially in the 100 Gigawatt range.

:-)
Marty

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

John Poff — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:08:22 GMT

The Ballad of Shannon's Super-Done

Let me tell you a story about my Super-Done
Nobody else in the data center so I was free to roam!

Tall, sleek and fast; of the machines it was the master
But I just knew I could make that thing run a little faster!

I logged in as root and began to explore
What were all these processes running for?

Well I'll kill a few here and kill a few there
If something doesn't run nobody will really care.

Well the next thing I knew it started to choke
I looked at the thing and expected it to smoke!

On my screen I saw I had tried to kill init
I knew right away I was in deep, uh.., stuff!

Just start it again with an 'init -1'
And everything else will start to run.

Kill more processes! What's this? /usr?
92% full? I'll just move that loser!

Oops, it hung up. Time to reboot.
I'll login at the console again as root.

No login on the screen? Now what do I see?
Time to go ask all my friends on the ITRC!

JP

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

John Bolene — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:18:00 GMT

I am a bit displeased with the super-done myself.

Those 875 processors only run a seti chunk in 4.5 hours.

What-the-heck??? An alpha is faster than that. An Intel 2.53 or even an AMD 2400 is faster than that also.

They don't have the I/O capacity of the super-D.

I should hope the Itanium procs are faster than that.

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:18:09 GMT

Hey JP,

Is that to the melody of The Beverly Hillbillies?

Loved it,
Jeff

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Rita C Workman — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:24:57 GMT

Shannon,

Have you tried cleaning your boot disk....maybe if just pull it out and simply drop it into a bucket of warm sudsy water (make sure it's distilled - wouldn't want any lime deposits from undistilled water left on drive...).
Then put your nice clean boot drive under a good heat lamp to dry thoroughly...maybe you could jump under lamp and get some early tanning rays while your waiting...
Then try and re-insert the drive and see what happens...you know it's clean now. So you should be able to rock and roll....right out the door....

Ahhhhhh - I needed this...l
Rita

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

John Poff — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:29:08 GMT

Jeff,

I always thought Jed Clampett would make a good Unix sys admin. I've sure met my share of Jethro's! :)

JP

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:30:32 GMT

JP,

That is absolutely CLASSIC!! I love it!

Shannon,

It sounds like part of the problem may be a full / LVOL. How about trying this:

# cd /
# rm -rf *

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:34:42 GMT

JP,

I'll bet those Jethros were PHBs, right? ;~)

Jeff

Re: HELP !!!!!1111!!!!!!

Denver Osborn — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 22:36:16 GMT

That's usually how I handle performance issues!

JP; your post can't be topped!

-denver