Re: random failing builds on spoonbill - backends not exiting...

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Subject: Re: random failing builds on spoonbill - backends not exiting...
Date: 2012-06-22 18:57:25
Message-ID: 201206222057.25499.andres@2ndquadrant.com
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On Friday, June 22, 2012 08:51:55 PM Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
>
> <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
> > sending a manual kill -15 to either of them does not seem to make them
> > exit either...
> >
> > I did some further investiagations with robert on IM but I don't think
> > he has any further ideas other than that I have a weird OS :)
> > It seems worth noticing that this is OpenBSD 5.1 on Sparc64 which has a
> > new threading implementation compared to older OpenBSD versions.
>
> I remarked to Stefan that the symptoms seem consistent with the idea
> that the children have signals blocked. But I don't know how that
> could happen.
You cannot block sigkill.

Andres
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