couldn't kill process hpunix 11.23

[Donald Thaler]

while shutting down the oracle database last night we got this error:

Job queue slave processes stopped
All dispatchers and shared servers shutdown
Thu Nov 8 00:30:15 2007
Process OS id : 13536 alive after kill
Errors in file
Thu Nov 8 00:50:16 2007
MMNL absent for 1218 secs; Foregrounds taking over

is there some system log we can look at that would identify what process 13536 was since it's no longer exists ?

(if this is a duplicate post i apologize)

[Dave Hutton · Accepted solution]

I doubt it would be in any system level logs. The only place I could maybe see it is if you were shutting down the server, it may be in the /etc/rc.log.old. Even then I doubt the amount of detail in there would be enough to identify what that process is. It would have to of been provided by the /sbin/init.d/oracle stop or whatever script you use to stop the database.

Which the ones I see, typically don't show that level of detail.

[Tim Nelson]

If you have Glance Plus installed and the MWA collectors running you could get a list of PIDS from that timeframe.

An option for the future if the above isn't available. A minute or so before running the Oracle shutdown script, start running ps -ef and capture the output every 10 seconds or so. Run this in a cron script for the duration of the oracle shutdown. Review the output when done.