Bug 496859

Summary: [RFE] patch for killall5 with -x for excluding processes in /etc/init.d/halt
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marc Grimme <grimme>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: hlawatschek, initscripts-maint-list, lnykryn, notting, rvokal
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This patch extends /etc/init.d/halt so that all programnames in /etc/xkillall_procs will not being killed none

Description Marc Grimme 2009-04-21 13:42:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
When a root filesystem is dependent on userspace programs the halt/reboot
process will not work. This happens because killall5 called by
/etc/init.d/halt will kill those programs and might therefore either stop the
halt/reboot process or yield other problems.

The attached patches introduces an approach for /etc/init.d/halt to take account of processes being excluded from being killed.

Again a file /etc/xkillall_procs is used to read all processes being excluded from killall5.

This is mainly needed when the root filesystem is either a cluster filesystem
like gfs/ocfs2/glusterfs or nfs/nfs4.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
all (fedora,rhel5)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use nfs4/gfs as rootfilesystem and the reboot or halt will kill programs
needed for filesystem interaction (aisexec, clvmd, groupd, rpcbind,
rpc.idmapd,..)
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Actual results:
Those programs get killed

Expected results:
Those programs should survive

Additional info:
Comment 1 Marc Grimme 2009-04-21 13:44:18 UTC 
Created attachment 340525 [details]
This patch extends /etc/init.d/halt so that all programnames in /etc/xkillall_procs will not being killed
Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2013-03-14 14:21:41 UTC 
Initscripts no longer handle this -> close.