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SubjectRe: Processes freezing in D state
> What happened was that I was working under X, when I noticed that both
> Netscape and apt had frozen. ps ax reported that 11 processes were in
> the D state, including update, syslogd, login, nmbd, communicator,
[snip..rest below]

2 possibly stupid questions for you.
1) do you have a quota limit for root by any chance?
2) are any of your partitions at capacity?

-Tony
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"The best way to predict the future, is to invent it."
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>
> What happened was that I was working under X, when I noticed that both
> Netscape and apt had frozen. ps ax reported that 11 processes were in
> the D state, including update, syslogd, login, nmbd, communicator,
> http (for apt), sync, bash and xterm. Alt-SysRq-T claimed that they all
> had EIPs of C01B4000, which is init_task_union. (I guess that software
> task switching broke thread_saved_pc.) Attempts to login on the console
> or start another xterm froze. However I was able to determine the
> following:
>
> ls /tmp -> ok
> touch /tmp/foo -> D
> ls /tmp -> D
> ls /tmp/foo -> no such file
>
> cat /tmp/bar > /dev/null -> D (where /tmp/bar exists)
> touch /tmp/bar -> D
>
> here's what an strace of ls /tmp looked like:
>
> open("/tmp", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) = 3
> fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
> getdents(3, <strace hangs here until CTRL-C>
>
> here's what an strace of touch /tmp/foo looked like:
>
> stat("/tmp/foo", 0xbffffc84) = -1 ENOENT
> open("/tmp/foo", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0666
>
> That's all I've got so far. If there's a way that I can get the stack
> trace for a frozen process, I'll try it next time this happens.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Andrew Lewycky
> amplewycky@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
>
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