Cannot kill VZDump process

[cmcgonnell]

Hello.
I have a hung vzdump process that I can't seem to kill. I've tried the suggested fixes from both the GUI and command line but nothing has worked thus far.

vzdump -stop
stoping backup process 23561 failed

kill -9 vzdump
kill -9 23561

I've killed the parent process and now the status in the GUI is showing "unknown" where prior it showed a status of "running."

Does anyone know a way to kill an orphaned process that doesn't involved having to restart the server? Again, the other suggestions I've found have been unsuccessful.

 

[lhorace]

Hello there,

I'm not sure if this helps, what happens when you restart pveproxy, does it clear up the orphan task?

Regards

 

[Chris]

Hi,
please check the status of the process by running `ps ax | grep <pid>`. If stat is 'D', then the process is in an uninterruptible sleep and you have to reboot in order to get rid of the process.

 

[cmcgonnell]

Thank you for the suggestions. Restarting pveproxy unfortunately had no impact.

ps ax | grep 23561

23561 ? Ds 0:32 task UPID:Server:00005C09:22C92A8E:5CFB32C2:vzdump::root@pam:

The above result is returned. I will need to schedule a reboot.

 

[jostein]

okey. this is a workround this

for example:
umount -f /mnt/pve/<NAME OF MOUNT> and then kill it in consol by kill -9 or in gui. takes 1min but easy to fix.

 

[dinko-vv]

Hello, I have a cluster with version 7.4-3. I had such a problem with mounting SMB(cifs) until I found the solution:

Do not click STOP button of the task.
Open a shell to the appropriate node and type:

umount -f -l /mnt/pve/<<mount point>> && vzdump --stop

task stops for a few seconds.
-l is required because <<mount point>> is busy.

Works like a charm for me.