[Info-ingres] Waiting indefinitely for the logging system to shut down

[Steve]

On Monday, 2 March 2020 11:59:10 UTC+11, Steve  wrote:
> The other day Ingres would not shutdown.
> 
> Here are the messages in the error log when ingstop was issued:
> 
> ..., lgmisc.c:1582         ]: Tue Feb 18 00:32:19 2020 E_DMA469_P
> ROCESS_HAS_DIED Process (00002F36) has died. A process attached to the logging and locking system has exited without going through n
> ormal cleanup processing. The system will now perform cleanup processing on behalf of the failed process.
> 
> ..., lgkinit.c:1145        ]: Tue Feb 18 00:32:19 2020 E_DMA499_D
> EAD_PROCESS_INFO        Process (00002F36) died with info '(DEFAULT)'.
> 
> 
> Some processes had shutdown, but the name server, archiver and recovery processes were still running.
> 
> When ingstop was issued for the second time, the following message was displayed:
> 
> "Waiting indefinitely for the logging system to shut down"
> 
> Trying to understand what the above means. For example, could the logging system have been waiting on the already shutdown DBMS servers? 
> 
> Thanks
> Steve

Great answers, thanks Marty, Karl, Jean-Pierre!