On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 22:25 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 15:02 +0100, Justus Winter wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I came up with a neat trick to rescue hanging Hurd systems. Or > > rather, the filesystems. When we kill an essential task from the > > kernel debugger, /hurd/startup will reboot the system: > > > > <ctrl-alt-d> > > Stopped at machine_idle+0xe: leave > > db> call task_terminate($task4) > > 0 > > db> c > > /hurd/startup: Crashing system; essential task proc died > > startup: notifying ext2fs device:hd0s1 of reboot...done > > startup: rebooting Mach (flags 0)... > > Hi, I tried your trick but got: > no more room for vm_map_enter in f5cbbf80 > Stopped at eip 0x80109422: ret > call task_terminate($task4) > Kernel page fault trap, eip 0x801474de > Caught page fault (14), code = 0, pc = 801474de > > I saw somewhere that you wrote how to list all processes but cannot find > it right now.
Found out myself: show all threads tried to task_terminate some tasks, but the reply was the same as above :(
