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To: Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org>
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Date: 16 Jun 2001 03:49:51 +0200
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Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org> writes:

[snip]
> Only shutdown stop it, but with message:
>    "some processes would not die; ps axl advised"
> After reboot all partitions are clean, no need of fsck.

precisely, this is what we could call a driver (kernel?) deadlock.
what's the ps axl output ? specificaly the wchan field would say
what is happen.

IMHO, this shouldn't arrive and probably is a driver bug
or hardware failure not handled by some driver which is
a driver bug in fact. I am wrong ?

Cyrille.
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