Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:49:02 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: Process in D state (was Re: 2.6.0-test5-mm2) |
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Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote: > > But, twice in a row now I've made this happen: > > 1391 pts/1 S 0:00 /bin/bash > 1419 pts/1 S 0:00 /bin/sh ./build.sh > 1423 pts/1 S 0:00 /bin/bash > /home/landley/pending/newfirmware/make-stat > 1447 pts/1 D 0:04 tar xvjf > /home/landley/pending/newfirmware/base/linux > 1448 pts/1 S 0:37 bzip2 -d > > All I have to do is run my script, it tries to extract the kernel tarball, and > tar hangs in D state. > > How do I debug this? (Is there some way to get the output of Ctrl-ScrLk to go > to the log instead of just the console? My system isn't currently hung, it's > just got a process that is. This process being hung prevents my partitions > from being unmounted on shutdown, which is annoying.)
sysrq-T followed by `dmesg -s 1000000 > foo' should capture it. > Other miscelanous bugs: cut and paste only works some of the time (it pastes > blanks other times, dunno if this was -test5 or -mm2; it worked fine in > -test4).
vgacon? fbcon? X11?
> The key repeat problem is still there, although still highly intermittent.
I think Andries says that some keyboards just forget to send up codes. We'll probably need some kernel boot parameter to support these, using the keyboard's silly native autorepeat.
> The boot hung enabling swap space once. I don't know why. (Init was already > running and everything...)
Probably the O_DIRECT locking bug: I had `rpmv' getting stuck on boot for a while. mm3 fixed that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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