From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: "Harald Dunkel" <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25.3: su gets stuck for root
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:34:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19f34abd0805140034j75d97ecbw5a03c200645768cb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4829D345.7020909@t-online.de>
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Harald Dunkel
<harald.dunkel@t-online.de> wrote:
> Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
> > Can you try to run "strace su someuser" instead?
>
> I tried, but its a Heisenbug: If I run it with strace (with or without
> -f), then it doesn't get stuck.
Ah, tough luck. What if you attach an strace to the already stuck
process? Like strace -p pid. It's a long shot, but worth a try, I
suppose.
You could also try to use sysrq to output some useful information
about the stuck process. See Documentation/sysrq.txt for more
information. Gotta run, good luck!
Vegard
--
"The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while
the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it
disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation."
-- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-14 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-13 6:17 Harald Dunkel
2008-05-13 6:47 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-13 17:43 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-13 19:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-14 4:55 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-14 5:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-14 7:34 ` Vegard Nossum [this message]
2008-05-14 17:05 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-14 17:17 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-14 17:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-18 17:56 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-18 17:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-20 19:01 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-20 19:12 ` david
2008-05-20 20:26 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-05-20 20:38 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-02 1:31 Joe Peterson
2008-06-02 5:12 ` Harald Dunkel
2008-06-02 5:32 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-06-02 5:55 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-02 8:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 9:01 ` David Newall
2008-06-02 9:20 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 10:16 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-02 10:39 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-02 10:52 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 10:57 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-02 12:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 14:31 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-02 10:50 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-17 15:32 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-02 15:26 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-02 15:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-02 16:03 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-04 14:43 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-04 15:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-04 16:52 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-04 17:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-06-04 20:32 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-11 14:04 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-12 11:52 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-14 1:49 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-14 7:45 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-14 17:43 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-14 20:34 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-14 20:52 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-14 21:26 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-14 21:34 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-02 5:42 ` Joe Peterson
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