From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: amanda vs 2.6
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:07:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031126200754.GU8039@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311261202050.1524@home.osdl.org>
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?
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-26 17:12 amanda vs 2.6 Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 17:19 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 19:15 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 19:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 19:43 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 19:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-26 20:07 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-11-26 20:41 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:40 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:56 ` Chris Adams
2003-11-26 21:34 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-11-27 8:41 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-27 10:05 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 13:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-27 17:16 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 17:55 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27 18:04 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-29 17:14 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-01 18:43 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 2:41 ` Gene Heskett
2003-12-07 11:56 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2003-12-07 13:53 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:23 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-26 20:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-26 20:47 ` Gene Heskett
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