From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 10:03:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C21216A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:03:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail19.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail19.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962D643D5D for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:03:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (c211-30-75-229.belrs2.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.30.75.229]) j3QA39Zk010644 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:10 +1000 Received: from cirb503493.alcatel.com.au (localhost.alcatel.com.au [127.0.0.1])j3QA387l025960; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from pjeremy@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au) Received: (from pjeremy@localhost)j3QA38GW025959; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from pjeremy) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:08 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20050426100308.GJ12673@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <426BA8FA.3080602@samsco.org> <426BAAE4.1040606@incubus.de> <17005.12955.757773.350868@roam.psg.com> <20050425181329.GA41455@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050425141900.363bca66.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050425141900.363bca66.wmoran@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: background_fsck=no does not work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:03:15 -0000 On Mon, 2005-Apr-25 14:19:00 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: >Actually, I have seen a similar problem on 5.x WRT OpenOffice ... >0. OpenOffice hangs and cant' be killed >1. Reboot system >2. System claims all buffers flushed, then just hangs >3. After hardbooting, filesystems need fscked This sounds like the fault might be related to the deadlock I reported in http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-April/013839.html In my case, OO.org was definitely involved, and it appears to have become unkillable before /usr locked up. Two of the locks were: - A shared lock on /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/program/libpsp645fi.so - /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/program/pagein holding an exclusive lock on /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/program and wanting an exclusive lock on /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/program/libpsp645fi.so I have no idea what "pagein" is supposed to do but I can't see any good reason for it wanting to lock an OO.org shared library. I have the crashdump lying around in case anyone can suggest somewhere to look for the cause. -- Peter Jeremy