HELP: Konqueror 3.2 hangs SuSE 2.4.21-202-smp4G in 'ps uax'

Bob Smith
2004-04-17T19:48:46Z

I'm not quite sure where to target this, redirects welcome.

I'm cross-posting because SuSE 2.4.21-202-smp4G is quasi-hanging when
accessing process information, particularly noticeable in Konquer sessions.
I'm asking now instead of researching further because I'm not sure where to
go from here, and because it's happening sooner and sooner after reboot.

The problem initially manifests as a Konqueror freeze. New process creation
continues normally (i.e you can start more Konquerors, BASHs, etc. The
application does not respond, but KDE can kill the PID after it fails to
respond. (I have seen cases where KDE can't influence the program, but when
a File | Exit works. This was after a failed KDE 'Logoff' that trashed
keyboard functionality(no LED response), but retained mouse input)

ls /proc/[0-9]* does not hang, and does not show dramatic increase of
entries, even after creating and killing 20-40 more processes during
diagnosis.

ps uax, top and the "KDE System Guard Process Table" all consistently hang.
ps consistently shows PIDs into the 2000's, but then hangs. 'for i in
/proc/[0-9]* ; do echo $i ; ls $i ; done' hangs on a apparently random
process. Further, gdb hangs when you try to 'attach' to the $i-th process in
a new bash.

dmesg and /var/log/messages both look innocuous, as does the console. After
a failed KDE Logoff and a failed 'telinit 6' from tty4, a Ctrl-Alt-Del on
tty1 resulted in:

INIT: Switching to runlevel 6
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
followed by a hang requiring a cold boot.

The system is configured through YaST pointed to:

tricia.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/suse/i386/current
and
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/yast-source

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