From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264303AbTKZUck (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:32:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264313AbTKZUck (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:32:40 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:26558 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264303AbTKZUcj (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:32:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:32:31 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: amanda vs 2.6 Message-ID: <20031126203231.GV8039@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200311261212.10166.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200311261443.43695.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20031126195049.GT8039@holomorphy.com> <200311261523.33524.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311261523.33524.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 26 November 2003 14:50, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Okay, then we need to figure out what the hung process was doing. >> Can you find its pid and check /proc/$PID/wchan? On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:23:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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? su had apparently spawned something and is waiting on it in the wchan you showed. Could you find the shell it spawned as an amanda user and syslogd (as per Linus' suggestion) also? -- wli