Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:39:12 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: Jeffrey Williams <jeff@sailorfej.net> Cc: freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serious Openoffice-1.1.3-swriter hang Message-ID: <20041210093703.I68211@cvs.imp.ch> In-Reply-To: <41B94C38.6080604@sailorfej.net> References: <41B94C38.6080604@sailorfej.net>
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Hi, This sounds like a threading problem. Please upgrade your box to FreeBSD 5.3 Stable (there have been removed a lot of edge cases in the threading libraries since 5.3 release. If the problem persists, we will work on that problem. -- Martin > Now normally when killing a hung program, will start with the last > process created and work my way backwards until the whole thing is gone. > However when I tried that this time, the third process could not be > killed, even with signal 9. So tried kill the other two, they died just > fine, the third would still not die. So I tried shutting down X, which > shutdown fine, but still left "soffice.bin -writer" still running, I > tried the killing with signal 9 again, again nothing happened. At this > the first time, I tried "shutdown -r now", the only unusual message (and > this if from memory so forgive me if it is not exact) was at the point > where the system drops into single user mode, it was: > "some processes would not stop, ps axl notified" > at which point it goes on clearing buffers and syncing the disks, the > disk sync completes, there is a message about no buffers in use, at > which point it hangs, and will not complete the shutdown. > The second time openoffice writer hung, instead of trying to shutdown > and reboot all at once, I used "shutdown now" to drop into single user > mode. In single user mode using "ps -waux" the "soffice.bin -writer" > process was still showing up, I tried one more time to kill it, and > still it would not die. At this point I tried to complete the shutdown > with "halt", as the first the shutdown hung immediately upon completing > the disk sync. > At this stage in both instances when the shutdown was hung, I tried > turning the computer off with the power button on the front (soft power > button) in both cases it would not shut off the computer. I got a acpi > error message saying that the button was ignored because the computer > wasn't ready. In both cases I then resorted to the hard power switch > located on the power supply in the back of the case.
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