Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:46:13 -0500 (EST) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: mystery process of death |
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Ian Peters wrote:
> open("/proc/5700/stat", O_RDONLY) = 7 > read(7, > > Both 'ps' and 'w' blocked on the same process, 5700. What is process > 5700, you might ask? I dunno, I couldn't figure it out either. If I > tried to look in /proc myself, my shell died too, of course. > > So that's my mysterious story. I had to reboot the box because, even > though I'm running 2.3.x kernels, it is occasionally useful and having > random processes getting stuck wasn't good. If anyone has ideas of > why it happened, or how I can look harder the next time it does > happen, etc., and/or just wants to fix whatever bug it could be, I'd > love to hear it.
Well, just a thought, did you try sniffing around for PIDs in the 'normal' favoriate places for such things? Such as /var/run/? I suspect what process it was probably doesn't actually matter, but that might tell you what it was. Might not too, depends on what it was. :)
Stephen
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