From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 19:40:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9483216A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:40:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B023143D53 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:40:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iBEJeAJ9083501; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:40:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:40:10 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: David Gilbert Message-ID: <20041214194010.GD37432@dan.emsphone.com> References: <16831.16550.226558.417721@canoe.dclg.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16831.16550.226558.417721@canoe.dclg.ca> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jobs dying in 'E' X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:40:33 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 14), David Gilbert said: > I cvsup'd to current this morning and many jobs are dying in the 'E' > state. Any idea what is causing this? man ps: E The process is trying to exit. Usually caused by queued up data on a tty not being flushed because someone has hit ^S. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com