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From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To: "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
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Subject: Re: passwd and send-pr
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On Tue, Feb 9, 1999, Wayne M. Barnes put this into my mailbox:
> Dear Stabilizers,
> 
>     I have just upgraded 2 machines from 2.7.8 to 3.0-stable.

   2.7.8 ?  Cool.  When was this released?

> Thank you for your kind pointers to 
> http://www.ucb.crimea.ua/~ru/FreeBSD/30upgrade.htmlo
> and
> http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html
> 
> PROBLEM:
>     One of the new 3.0 systems has a strange problem with the commands 
> passwd and send-pr (at least).
> 
>     Each of these commands just hangs, with no output.
> 
>    [ I had send-pr hang in this same way about a year ago with 3.0, and
> this was the main reason I have hesitated to upgrade so long.]
> 
>     Is there a command I can give to see what these programs are doing,
> to see why they are hung up?

ktrace send-pr

when it locks up do

kdump | more

> 
> Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D.                        wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu
> Biochemistry Dept. 8231
> Washington Univ. Medical School               314.362.3351  fax 7183
> 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
>           http://barnes1.wustl.edu       Just plain Taq is old tech anymore.
> 
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