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On Sun, Aug 31, 2003, Kevin Bockman wrote:
> Running 5.1 is a different story.  I did a low level
> format of the drive then I did a clean
> install of 5.1-RELEASE and cvsup'd to -p2.  Every time
> I do this, it's great for a day or so then it acts up.
>  Before after it started, even if I rebooted it would
> immediately start up.  On 5.1, it is only hanging for
> that process and everything else is fine.  I can still
> login, webserver responds, etc.
[...]
> Any ideas on what else to check or other helpful hints
> would help bunches.

The output of 'ps axl' might help track down exactly where in the
kernel the affected processes are getting stuck.

BTW, I think 5.X issues are still discussed on current@ for the
most part, at least until 6.X is forked.