From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Zeimetz Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:58:11 +0000 Subject: Re: unkillable dpkg-query processes Message-Id: <47248763.70003@bzed.de> List-Id: References: <20071024223332.GA24557@keid.carnet.hr> In-Reply-To: <20071024223332.GA24557@keid.carnet.hr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org >> [29074.766486] TSTATE: 0000000011009600 TPC: 000000000042f984 TNPC: 000000000042f928 Y: 00000000 Not tainted >> [29074.884191] TPC: > > What kind of OOPS is this? Please provide the kernel log messages > that appeared right before these register dumps. Oct 28 03:25:12 titan kernel: [29074.698695] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 11s! [sh:4252] This happened while a cronjob was running which updates the libnss-db database... With an older kernel (2.6.23-rcsomething) this didn't crash the machine. -- Bernd Zeimetz