Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: amanda vs 2.6 | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:23:33 -0500 |
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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
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