[Users] Shutdown problems

[Thorsten Schifferdecker]

Hi,

can you please fill a bug at bugzilla.openvz.org and add info about:

- what template OS is used
- any log entries in syslog (kern|dmesg).log
- which raid controller

Bye,
 Thorsten

HostGIS Support schrieb:
> I emailed on the topic before, and have never found a solution -- nor
> indeed, more than one other corroboration of the problem's existence.
> But now, I have freed up a while server with OpenVZ where we can
> experiment with it at will.
> 
> The problem: Shutting down a VPS gives me a timeout after several
> minutes. Although all processes in the container are dead, the container
> itself will not finish shutting down. The veth device never goes down,
> the container cannot be restarted, the phantom VPS will hang around
> until I power-cycle the server. This interrupts shutdowns too: init 0
> and reboot never, ever work; they do nothing, they don't turn anything
> off; and I have to pull the plug.
> 
> Worse, this happens reliably -- I don't dare shut down a VPS unless it's
> a migration, and I can manually complete the migration and startup, then
> power-cycle the origin HN.
> 
> BUT... Now we have a machine and some IPs with OpenVZ, and my current
> project is to figure this thing out so we can reboot with confidence.
> Where do we start and who's with me? :)