I have just set-up two new N-4000 servers with HP-UX 11.00. However, now I have seen a few times that the servers are hanging when I try to reboot them.
When I issue 'shutdown -r 0' then the processes are closed correctly and when this is done '/sbin/reboot' is executed, and at this point nothing happens. I have actually tried to wait 45 minutes, just to see what happens. But I had to run 'rs' to get the system down.
Does any of know about this kind of problem, on a HP-UX 11 machine?
Christian, I have never heard about a situation like your's. Can you give us the code from the VFP while the server 'stucks' and maybe the last logs of the incoming logs.
there is always a log in the incoming logs... What's weird is the fact that there is no new code on the VFP! can you please double check it the next time the system hangs that Ctrl-B GSP> VFP
We are experiencing the same problem with our N Class server since April 2001. Support also never had encountered a problem like this also. Our only alternative was to crash the system everytime we wanted to bring it down. Finally HP had us send a crash dump and found we had a database application hanging a pty and this is what was causing our problem. They feel it is a timing issue and have given us a special patch from the lab PHNE_25914. We did not have a chance to implement this patch yet, so I'm not sure this is a fix.
