[Users] How to kill dead container (init is dead)

[Andrey Mirkin]

Hello,

Can you please post here 'ps axf' from your system.
Also please provide what steps were performed before container get stuck in 
such a state.

Regards,
Andrey

On Thursday 31 July 2008 00:16 Pongracz Istvan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use openvz kernel 2.6.18-028stab051 for long months on my gentoo
> system.
> The uptime now is 105 days.
>
> It seems, one of my containers completely dead:
> all processes are dead, including the init process.
>
> I tried to kill them by issuing kill -9, but it is not working.
> vzctl also cannot stop the container.
>
> I tried to send other signal to these processes and the cron started.
> The only process, which is run, but not really useful:
> it is eating cpu.
>
> The last message to the system log happened before the daily vzdump
> started.
> Since then, there is nothing in the syslog of the container.
>
>
> So, my 1st priority question, is there any other trick to restart a
> container or I have to reboot?
>
> Cheers,
> István