From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amanda vs 2.6
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:23:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311261523.33524.gene.heskett@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031126195049.GT8039@holomorphy.com>
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 14:50, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>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?
>
Ok, repeat, us is PID 1843, so:
[root@coyote root]# ps -ea|grep su
1843 pts/1 00:00:00 su
[root@coyote root]# cat /proc/1843/wchan
sys_wait4[root@coyote root]#
Unforch, echoing a 0 to that variable doesn't fix it, reboot time
again.
Do you need my .config?
>
>-- wli
--
Cheers, Gene
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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
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 [this message]
2003-11-26 20:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 20:47 ` Gene Heskett
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