Re: unkillable process dselect 2.6.15-rc1 and 2.6.15-rc1-mm1

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:37:34PM -0800, Lawrence Walton wrote:

> Hi

Hi Lawrence,

> I have a system that has processes that can't be or even zombied. Most
> easily triggered by dpkg. but "make clean" in the Linux source seems to
> cause it too.
> 
> Seems related to SCSI and a root XFS file system. No oops but I did get
> a call trace. Not sure if it's generically a SCSI thing or specific to
> my card.
> 
> lspci says it's a AIC-7892A.
> 
> Question comments patches are welcome.

Is this issue still present in 2.6.15-rc7?
2.6.14 was OK?

Please sent the output of "dmesg -s 1000000" for both a working and a 
non-working kernel if it's still present in 2.6.15-rc7.

> BTW I've put other bugs in the bugzilla not related to this one, and
> received what I would characterize as deafening silence. Should I
> bother?
>...

Unfortunately, our bug handling is worse than it should be.

The Bugzilla is still a good place to prevent a bug from being 
completely forgotten.

cu
Adrian

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