on one of our AIX VIO LPARs I can not remove hdiskpower devices, which seemed to presented to the VIO in an incorrect way and behaviour (not all paths can be seen, pseudo device name is unknown etc.)
Therefor I decided to deattach the hdiskpower device from PowerPath controll by:
powermt remove <hdiskpowerXX> ---> did not work
then directly via:
3. rmdev -Rdl <hdiskpowerXX> --> i got this message:
rmdev: 0514-516 Device configuration database lock service timed out.
Please retry the command later.
In principle, yes, but isn't that a little over-enthusiastic? I tend to try kill -15 always first and only if the process in question is poorly written (and doesn't honour the signal) use kill -9 as a last resort.
The difference is that -15 gives the process to be ended a chance to clean up after itself: remove temporary files, remove allocated shared memory segments, remove opened sockets, ..., whereas -9 is a - to the process external - headshot.
Its suicide versus kill and, as we all know since the days of M.A.S.H, suicide is painless ... ;-))
Yes - and several of your configuration processes already hang. Your perhaps best option is to reboot the system completely and take it from there. If even the cfgmgr already hangs with several instances there is something seriously wrong and i don't know if you are ever going to recover from that. A reboot will at least bring the system into a defined state.