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hostd is not responding and cannot be killed by the kill -9 command (1007261)

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Symptoms

You cannot log in to an ESX host with VMware Infrastructure (VI) Client

ESX host shows as disconnected in vCenter Server

The hostd process is not responding

You cannot kill hostd with the command kill -9 and the process keeps re-spawning itself

Resolution

The vmware-watchdog process watches over hostd and restarts it if it detects that hostd is no longer running. This issue occurs if vmware-watchdog thinks that hostd is no longer running and keeps respawning hostd.

To resolve this issue, you must stop and restart hostd, so that vmware-watchdog stops respawning the process.

Run this command to stop hostd:

service mgmt-vmware stop

Note: In ESXi 5.x, the command is /etc/init.d/hostd stop.

Run this command to see if the vmware-watchdog thinks that hostd is stopped:

Note: In ESXi hosts, the vmware-watchdog process command can be located at /opt/vmware/vpxa/bin/ and in ESXi 5.x, the watchdog.sh is located at /sbin. The following command can be run as /opt/vmware/vpxa/bin/vmware-watchdog -r hostd and this path also applies to the other subsequent vmware-watchdog commands.

./vmware-watchdog -r hostd

For ESXi 5, a .sh extension is required to execute the command:

/sbin/watchdog.sh -r hostd

If the command returns the message PID file not found, vmware-watchdog cannot see any hostd processes. Proceed to step 4.

If the vmware-watchdog command returns a PID file, run this command to kill hostd and proceed to step 3:

vmware-watchdog -k hostd

If the vmware-watchdog command produces an error such as cannot find the PID, check to see if the PID file exists in the following location:

/var/run/vmware/vmware-hostd.PID

If this files exists, delete vmware-hostd.PID and watchdog-hostd.PID with the rm commands and proceed to step 3:

rm /var/run/vmware/vmware-hostd.PID
rm /var/run/vmware/watchdog-hostd.PID

Re-run this command:

vmware-watchdog.sh -r hostd

Run this command to see if any hostd processes are running:

ps | grep hostd

If no hostd processes are running, start the service. For more information, see Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (1003490).

If these instructions do not resolve the issue, reboot the host.

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