Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932092AbVKWQur (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:50:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932093AbVKWQur (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:50:47 -0500 Received: from Mail.MNSU.EDU ([134.29.1.12]:28830 "EHLO mail.mnsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932092AbVKWQuq (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:50:46 -0500 Message-ID: <43849D79.5040507@mnsu.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:48:57 -0600 From: Jeffrey Hundstad User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , Zan Lynx , ak@muc.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com, nathans@sgi.com Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.15-rc2 References: <43829ED2.3050003@mnsu.edu> <20051122150002.26adf913.akpm@osdl.org> <20051122170507.37ebbc0c.akpm@osdl.org> <4383E4F6.8000202@mnsu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1225 Lines: 31 Linus Torvalds wrote: >>BTW: Since I have your ear, this same version DOES seem to have some >>other bug as well. I did a "make distclean" and the "rm -f" of all he >>object files hung forever in "D" state. I'm using XFS on IDE disks. >>I'm using the same config as was posted before. I didn't get anything >>in an log files that would indicate a problem. Has this been reported? >>If not, what can I do to make a meaningful report? >> >> > >I don't recognize those symptoms, so more info would be nice. > >For example, it would be good to know where the threads are that are >waiting uninterruptibly. You should be able to get that info with Sysrq >'T' (or with the old "ctrl + ScrollLock" thing). > >That should tell us if they're hung on a semaphore or waiting for disk IO >to complete or what... > It has been pointed out to me that the XFS team does know about this and is looking into it. The thread is "unable to use dpkg 2.6.15-rc2". -- Jeffrey Hundstad - 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/