Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jul 2003 02:05:41 -0700 | From | "Barry K. Nathan" <> | Subject | [BUG] heavy disk access sometimes freezes 2.5.73-mm[123] |
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This is going to be a terribly vague bug report, of a bug that I can't reproduce on demand (at least not yet). I'll see if I can bang on this over the 4th of July weekend and create a reproducible scenario, but until then, I want to at least get *something* in writing that other people can see. So, here goes...
When I run 2.5.73-mm[123] on a Mandrake Cooker system here, it generally runs fine. However, when I run "urpmi --auto-select" to upgrade the packages to the latest versions, rpm tends to freeze up during installation of one of the packages. This did not seem to happen with 2.5.70-mm9, which was the kernel I ran before 2.5.73-mm1.
(It doesn't seem to be happening with 2.5.74 either, although I think it's really too soon to say for sure.)
ps shows a process (an rpm process, IIRC) stuck in the D state.
The most unusual aspect of this system is that it's using loopback root. The root filesystem is ReiserFS, contained within a file on a FAT32 partition.
I'll try to make this happen in a more controlled environment soon...
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