If you try to stop a zone but it remains in shutting_down state, any further action will fail (i.e. detach) root@solaris1:/root # zoneadm -z solariszone detach zoneadm: zone 'solariszones': detach operation is invalid for shutting_down zones. First important information is: We should never kill the zsched process!!. we have to check on the zone related zombi processes that are blocking our attempt to stop the zone (-z) root@solaris1:/root # ps -fz solariszone UID PID PPID C Read more...