[ale] ipmi_si refused to go?

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

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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