Changeset 92885 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox

Timestamp:

Dec 13, 2021 2:11:01 PM (3 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

148838

Message:

ValKit/vboxinstaller.py: Do 'sudo /bin/kill -9 pid' if utils.processKill fails and the process still exists.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/testdriver/vboxinstaller.py (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/testdriver/vboxinstaller.py

@@ -348 +348 @@
                              % ( iIteration, oProcess.iPid, oProcess.sImage if oProcess.sName is None else oProcess.sName,
                                  oProcess.iUid, ));
-                utils.processKill(oProcess.iPid); # No mercy.
+                if    not utils.processKill(oProcess.iPid) \
+                  and sHostOs != 'windows' \
+                  and utils.processExists(oProcess.iPid):
+                    # Many of the vbox processes are initially set-uid-to-root and associated debuggers are running
+                    # via sudo, so we might not be able to kill them unless we sudo and use /bin/kill.
+                    utils.sudoProcessCall(['/bin/kill', '-9', '%s' % (oProcess.iPid,)]);
 
             # Check if they're all dead like they should be.