Re: init dies after reboot

From: Anonymous
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 02:52:31 EST



Thanks for answer, but the thing with core is
imposible as I said that there is no /proc/1 dir :(

--- "Richard B. Johnson" <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Anonymous wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I encountered a strange problem, and i'm not sure
> that
> > it originates or not in the kernel.
> > the probl. is that on many slack boxes init dies
> after
> > some time, but the OS is still up and running.
> > if I 'ps aux' the machine,no init, and /proc/1
> doesn't
> > exist.
> > although, `lsof | grep init` shows:init 1
> > root cwd DIR 8,3 472 2 /
> > init 1 root rtd DIR 8,3
> > 472 2 /
> > init 1 root txt REG 8,3
> > 468916 15607 /sbin/init
> > init 1 root 0r CHR 1,3
> > 5659 /dev/null
> > init 1 root 1u CHR 1,3
> > 5659 /dev/null
> > init 1 root 2u CHR 1,3
> > 5659 /dev/null
> > init 1 root 10u FIFO 8,3
> > 137774 /dev/initctl
> >
> >
> > Any kind of ideea?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Uwe Bower
>
> The kernel will never send a signal 9 to init.
> However, it can
> send many other signals. If the signal handler in
> init got
> corrupt from a buffer overrun, bad memory, etc.,
> it's quite
> possible for init to die. When it dies, it would
> usually
> die as a result of a seg-fault. You can observe
> /proc/1/cwd to
> see where init lives. There may be a core-file in
> that directory.
> The core-file might be able to give you a hint.
> Also, somebody
> who has su privs can `cp /dev/random /dev/initctl`
> with some
> interesting results.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine
> (797.90 BogoMips).
> Note 96.31% of all statistics are
> fiction.
>
>


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