[lm-sensors] Question on my mainboard

[r.marek@sh.cvut.cz (Rudolf Marek)]

Hello Dieter,

> Dear listmembers,
> I am using several Tyan Tiger 2460 motherboards since quite a while. And I am 
> observing a strange behaviour someone in the list (might) have a clue about.
> 
> I am reading the sensors data periodically every 10 seconds. After an 
> undefined time (maybe one week, maybe one day, maybe three weeks) sensors 
> "hangs" after start and cannot be killed any more. A manual call to sensors 
> ends in a hang as well (of sensors, the board is running on).
> 

Well perhaps I will have future questions:

Hmm this seems some race condition in the kernel maybe? If you do ps ax
can you see the D state of the process? Any OOPs message in the log?

Do you use preempt? (perhaps not)
Does cat hang if you do for example cat some value from /sys/bus/i2c/devices.../temp1_input

Regards
Rudolf