[ale] ipmi_si refused to go?

[Jerry Yu]

modprobe process hang, and it won't be killed by SIGKILL, SIGTERM, before
and after detaching from its parent shell (and controlling tty).
OMSA won't be able to start properly, since it needs to load IPMI modules.

On 12/28/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> As long as needed resources are not consumed by the rmmod, let it slide
> and wait on the reboot until it is needed. You can kill the rmmod
> process itself (may not work once detached from the shell it was called
> from). It won't hurt to try.
>
> It should work to stop all processes that use that module. Then the
> rmmod will complete.
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 19:48 -0500, Jerry Yu wrote:
> > On a Dell PE6650 server running CentOS 4.1 when I attempted to remove
> > ipmi_si module, 'modprobe -r' hang and won't take 'CTRL-Z' seriously.
> > I killed its parent bash session, now init owns it. some old postings
> > suggested a reboot to fix. Anyone to differ?
> >
> > # rmmod ipmi_si
> > ERROR: Removing 'ipmi_si': Device or resource busy
> > # fuser
> > /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELhugemem/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko:
> > 25270
> > # the actual process
> > root     25270     1 99 13:51 ?        02:57:51 modprobe -r ipmi_si
> > # lsmod|grep -i ipmi
> > ipmi_si                32317  0
> > ipmi_msghandler        33317  1 ipmi_si
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