Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:16:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:16:48 -0500 Received: from ATuileries-102-2-1-196.abo.wanadoo.fr ([193.251.178.196]:3222 "EHLO mojito.idtect.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:16:47 -0500 Message-ID: <3E6F199E.5000001@ruault.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:27:26 +0100 From: Charles-Edouard Ruault User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [kernel 2.4.21-pre5 : process stuck in D state Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 926 Lines: 26 Hi All, i've been running kernel 2.4.21-preX series for a while on my ASUS A7V8X motherboard ( with an athlon XP 2400+ ) and i've noticed the following annoying problem. Very often, mozilla ( 1.2.1 ) dies and is stuck in D state, waiting on a semaphore, here's the output of ps : ps -elf | grep mozill 000 S userX 2615 1462 0 69 0 - 972 wait4 00:50 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin 000 D userX 2621 2615 0 69 0 - 13623 down 00:50 ? 00:00:02 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin Has anyone noticed the same behaviour ? Is this a well known problem ? Thanks for your help. Regards Charles-Edouard Ruault - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/