run away process/session

[Romen Q. Cordial_1]

We got this problem on one of our Oracle application running in HPUX10.20, When user login using Chase Browse they've goy messages

ERROR: :

Please contact your System Administrator.

Press SPACE to continue.
Andrew Au: Initialization ERROR:

Can't get the DV_GROUP_ID from DV_GROUP table.

Press SPACE to continue.

This problem are cause by run away process/session user 'matti' using pts/0 and pts/1. The user matti did not properly logout on the system so the pts/0 & pts/1 was still allocated to him, while the application doesnt know that this 2 pseudo terminal are in used, because when you try to ps -ef|grep matti user it won't show you anymore process or pid for user matti. But when you do w or who you can still see matti user id was still login to the system.

# w
4:50pm up 6 days, 18:14, 10 users, load average: 1.78, 1.83, 1.51
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
ds ttyp1 3:55pm 13 -ksh
rcordial ttyp2 4:03pm sh
e0184088 pts/0 4:37pm 10 ./ds_menu.4ge /home/ds/bin
matti pts/0 9:15pm 10 ./ds_menu.4ge /home/ds/bin
matti pts/1 9:24pm 91:25 -
matti pts/2 9:24pm 10 ./ds_menu.4ge /home/ds/bin
matti pts/3 9:25pm 10 ./ds_menu.4ge /home/ds/bin
e0184088 pts/2 4:01pm 10 ./ds_menu.4ge /home/ds/bin
e0184088 pts/3 4:01pm 10 ./ds_menu.4ge /home/ds/bin
e5052464 pts/4 4:16pm 22 39 39 ./ds_cb_client
#

[harry d brown jr]

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[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,
Don't know much about Oracle but see if you can do this:
I hope ./ds_menu.4ge is your filesystem.
# fuser -cu ./ds_menu.4ge
This will list all process associated with that filesystem.
And using "fuser -kuc" you can kill them.
Wait for some more responses from Oracle Studs.

Regards,

[Romen Q. Cordial_1]

temp sol. is to clear the /etc/utmp, but for fixing the problem need to upgrade the Openssh.

thanks guy for your help.