ksukia: Attempt to re-kill process OS PID during shutdown immediate

Many have reported this as a bug.
Issue :

Shutdown immediate goes into a wait trying to kill a defunct process.
You should see somthing like this in the alert log.

*** 2011-05-05 04:56:10.282
ksukia: Starting kill, force = 0
ksukia: Attempt 215 to re-kill process OS PID=7135.
ksukia: killed 1 out of 1 processes.
.
.
where PID=7135 is the defunct process.
ps -ef| grep 7135
oraware 7135 7134 0 - ? 0:00
oraware 9921 7878 0 05:25:48 pts/33 0:00 grep 7135
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Resolution

1. Simply exist from the current session ie shutdown immediate.
2. make sure no session on the database (have application down if required).
3. Initiate shutdown immediate again.
4. Should work..!

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