From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:35:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:35:16 -0500 Received: from co3006317-a.thorn1.nsw.optushome.com.au ([203.164.22.27]:24842 "HELO drongo.taudelta.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:35:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3A724FD2.3DEB44C@reptechnic.com.au> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:34:26 +1100 From: John Sheahan Organization: Tau Delta X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-pre8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ps hang in 241-pre10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi my box has been running 2.4.1-pre10 for three days. This morning I noticed odd behavioue - ps and top wouuld freeze with no output. running strace on 'ps' open("/proc/669/environ", O_RDONLY) = 7 read(7, "INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.78\0previ"..., 2047) = 254 close(7) = 0 stat("/proc/683", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 open("/proc/683/stat", O_RDONLY) = 7 read(7, --- and things just stop in that window-- I cannot read from /proc/683/ process 683 does not show up in /var/log/messages. How to I find what it is? Any suggestions on how to debug? Kernel 2.4.1-pre10 on a 2-processor i686 the box has run various 240-test for no unusual issues. john - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/