[Users] Host shutdown hangs on vz service stop

[Gordan Bobic]

Gregor at HostGIS wrote:
>> Unless each VM is stopped from inside it (usually using halt), 
>> stopping the container doesn't manage to stop it most of the time, it 
>> just blocks.
> 
> Does it give a timeout? I had an issue before, where "vzctl stop XXX" 
> would eventually time out, leaving the VE in an unpleasant state: no 
> processes left, but not stopped so it can't be restarted. Does that 
> sound familiar?

That does, indeed, sound very familiar.

> For that one, "vzcfgvalidate" showed that I had mistakes in some limits 
> and correcting the VE config corrected the issue. We never knew why 
> these mistakes would cause stops to timeout, but it did work.

I just vzcfgvalidate-d my config files and it threw up no problems or 
errors. :-/

Gordan