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From: Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
Subject: BUG: enabling psacct breaks fsfreeze
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:43:51 +0200
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Hi,

while trying to create consistent backups of KVM guest, I've discovered
that fsfreeze always hangs.. deeper investigation revealed psacct to be the=
 culprit.
When psacct is disabled, fsfreeze works fine, when enabled, the command nev=
er returns.
I suppose that the problem is /var is not on separate partition (ie it's sa=
me volume
as /) and psacct isn't able to dump process exit information about fsfreeze=
 command
thus creating deadlock..
problem is 100% reproducible on both latest 3.0.x kernel and 3.7-r1c.

Should more debugging information be needed, I'll be glad to provide whatev=
er I can..

BR

nik

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