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Title: System hangs during shutdown/Error messages from wall

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System hangs during shutdown/Error messages from wall

Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 6.0, 1st Edition

Symptom:

Problem with shutting down the computer. After the command shutdown, halt or reboot, is issued by an authorized user, the computer remains at the "Shutting down services" (httpd, smbd, nntpd, ftpd ...) stage.
Afterwards the system grabs a hold of the hard drive and you eventually recieve an error message such as:
Shutting down syslog serviceUnable to load interpreter /sbin/init.d/K35syslog:line60
2504 Segmentation fault killproc -TERM /usr/sbin/syslogd
wall: /dev/ttyXXX: I/O error 

Reason:

This is an error in the signal handling of glibc, which occurs when terminating processes, such as when shutting down the system.

Processes which recieve such signals enter into a loop, which will use up all of the virtual memory, until the swap space is exhausted.

Solution:

There are a few approaches:

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See also:

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Keywords: SHUTDOWN, HALT, REBOOT, WALL, SYSLOGD, KILLPROC, UNABLE_TO_LOAD_INTERPRETER

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