Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933047AbZGPSwu (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:52:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932952AbZGPSwu (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:52:50 -0400 Received: from aun.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.36]:65457 "EHLO aun.it.uu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932891AbZGPSwt (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:52:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <19039.30453.46908.809890@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:52:37 +0200 From: Mikael Pettersson To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PTY bug in 2.6.31-rc3? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1013 Lines: 24 Theodore Ts'o writes: > Hey Alan, > > I'm running 2.6.31-rc3, and twice now over about 36 hours all > pseudo-tty's have stopped working on my system. Everything else works; > I can fire up gui applications, but starting any new programs that use > pty's will hang. The only fix seems to be to reboot the system. > > I think I remember seeing a similar report, but I thought you said it > had been fixed in -rc3 --- does this ring a bell? That exact same thing happended to me yesterday. The machine had been running -rc3 for a couple of hours when console and all ptys hung. It answered pings and accepted remote logins, but they hung immediately. C-A-D initiated a reboot but hung. Saw nothing interesting in the logs after the hard reboot. /Mikael -- 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/