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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amanda vs 2.6
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:50:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126195049.GT8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311261443.43695.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 14:30, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Sounds like trouble. Are there any external signs of what's going
>> on? e.g. is the disk thrashing?

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:43:43PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> No, it just hangs forever on the su command, never coming back.  
> everything else I tried, which wasn't much, seemed to keep on working 
> as I sent that message with that hung su process in another shell on 
> another window.  I'm an idiot, normally running as root...
> I've rebooted, not knowing if an echo 0 to that variable would fix it 
> or not, I see after the reboot the default value is 0 now.

Okay, then we need to figure out what the hung process was doing.
Can you find its pid and check /proc/$PID/wchan?


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-26 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-26 17:12 amanda vs 2.6 Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 17:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 19:15   ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 19:30     ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 19:43       ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 19:50         ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-11-26 20:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-26 20:07             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 20:41               ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:40             ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:56             ` Chris Adams
2003-11-26 21:34             ` Diego Calleja García
2003-11-27  8:41             ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-27 10:05               ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 13:39                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-27 17:16                   ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 17:55                     ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 18:04                       ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-29 17:14                   ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-01 18:43                     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02  2:41                       ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-07 11:56                         ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2003-12-07 13:53                           ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:23           ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:32             ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 20:47               ` Gene Heskett

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