From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 16 16:03:11 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA04300 for current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:03:11 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA04292 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:03:06 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA14992; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:02:58 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id QAA00355; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:02:57 -0800 Message-Id: <199503170002.QAA00355@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Mysterious hang-type thingy... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Mar 95 23:08:21 +0100." <199503162208.XAA17247@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 16:02:56 -0800 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >As Mark Murray wrote: >> >> While doing a make install, the session concerned just _stops_. No ^c's >> or ^Z's can stop it. "w" On any other session dies in a similar way. > >...and when calling ``ps'' from DDB, you saw several proc's hanging >on `lock_read'? > >I've seen this several days ago, and David reported it's fixed now. ...at least the cause that I had seen. I just got a report from Paul Richards yesterday that segguests that there might be another cause of this problem. I plan to look into this soon. ...but meanwhile, please upgrade to -current is you're not already. -DG