From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:24:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061021052423.GF21948@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <453917C2.8010201@candelatech.com>
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:38:58AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> I had a dead nfs server that was causing some programs to pause,
> in particular 'yum install foo' was paused. I kill -9'd the
> yum related processes.
>
> I fixed up the nfs server and was able to un-mount the file system.
> I subsequently killed many backed up updatedb and similar processes.
>
> Now, there are no rpm processes, but if I try 'rpm [anything]' it
> hangs trying to open a futex:
>
> open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
> fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=41390080, ...}) = 0
> futex(0xb7ba178c, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL <unfinished ...>
>
> Is there any way to figure out what is causing this futex-wait?
The dead rpm you killed left behind locks in its databases.
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* and it should work again.
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-21 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-20 18:38 futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5 Ben Greear
2006-10-21 5:24 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2006-10-21 17:45 ` Ben Greear
2006-10-21 18:00 ` Dave Jones
2006-10-21 18:08 ` Ben Greear
2006-10-21 21:55 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-11-27 0:02 ` Denis Vlasenko
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