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From: Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com>
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:11:24PM +0200, daniela5743@gmx.net wrote:
> >  That's a bunch of non-sense! :) nobody will notice.. If they do then
> > you show'em who's boss: rmuser * 
> 
> :-) No, I'm nice to my users.
> 
> Any ideas why it crashed? Could this be a serious bug (4.8-STABLE)?
> If yes, how do I get a core dump, or at least some more information?
> I have debug symbols everywhere. It is a clean system, freshly
> installed a few days ago.
> I'd really like to know what's going on.

I would suggest using lsof and find out which file the process is
waiting on.  It seems rather strange that the process is in a disk
wait state for so long.

Marc

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