From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 00:28:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA04121 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:28:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orac.ece.utexas.edu (orac.ece.utexas.edu [128.83.52.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA04115 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:28:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bgrayson@orac.ece.utexas.edu) Received: (from bgrayson@localhost) by orac.ece.utexas.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA08998 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 02:28:12 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19981105022812.A8060@orac.ece.utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 02:28:12 -0600 From: "Brian C. Grayson" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: a.out and disk-wait hangs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I try to run an a.out version of Netscape on a 3.0-RELEASE box, it hangs after a second or two in getblk. Other (non-a.out) processes are highly likely to get permanently stuck in disk-wait (D from top and ps's point of view) after this, leading to a fairly wedged system pretty quick. The jobs don't respond to kill -9 or ^Z or ^C. Is this a known bug? Do I have my system misconfigured? It's highly reproducible on this box. Thanks in advance. Brian Grayson -- "When you are going from a scalar proof to a vector proof, you either redo the proof for each of the components, or you just put little arrows on top of everything." -- Robert Hardt, MATH 423 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message