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> > This reminds me of a problem I am seeing under recent -bk kernels.
> > 
> > Mozilla (FC2) will freeze (no screen redraws, etc.).  'ps xf' shows 
> > mozilla sleeping.  If I strace the process, Mozilla will un-freeze and 
> > continue as expected.
> > 
> 
> Presumably the futex thing:
> 

This patch seems to fix it for me, recently various programs have got
stuck in pthread_condition_wait (this on x86-64).

When that happened I did gdb --pid and then 'continue' which made it
wake up.