Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264341AbTKZUmb (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:42:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264342AbTKZUma (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:42:30 -0500 Received: from out002pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.141]:50828 "EHLO out002.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264341AbTKZUlg (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:41:36 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers To: William Lee Irwin III , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: amanda vs 2.6 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:41:35 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200311261212.10166.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20031126200754.GU8039@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20031126200754.GU8039@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311261541.35914.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out002.verizon.net from [151.205.54.127] at Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:41:35 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1439 Lines: 36 On Wednesday 26 November 2003 15:07, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, 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 12:04:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> I've seen this before, and I'll bet you 5c (yeah, I'm cheap) that >> it's trying to log to syslogd. >> And syslogd is stopped for some reason - either a bug, a mistaken >> SIGSTOP, or simply because the console has been stopped with a >> simple ^S. That won't stop "su" working immediately - programs can >> still log to syslogd until the logging socket buffer fills up. >> Which can be _damn_ frsutrating to find (I haven't seen this >> behaviour lately, but I remember being perplexed like hell a long >> time ago). > >That'll do it. Gene, could you check on syslogd too, then? > See my reply to Linus. > >-- wli -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - 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/