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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:18:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thor Clark <thor@tab012.tabula.com>
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Cc: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
Subject: Re: help -system hangs - the ongoing saga 
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On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, David Greenman wrote:

cool, upgrade time... 
Until I do, are there any other known triggers/situations I can avoid?
Thanks
-Thor Clark

> >many of the processes (including init) were waiting with
> >
> >lock_write	f020e004
> >
> 
>    This is likely fixed in 2.1.5. There was a bug that could be easily
> triggered with doing a pair of ps(8)'s at the wrong time and resulted
> in the above hang.
> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>