On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:34:33PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > ps hangs, cannot complete (not ^C). > same goes for top and for killall.
Something is holding a lock. > This looks like some process is in uniterruptable sleep, but without PS, > I cannot find out who. Magic-SysRq, if it's enabled, is your very best friend. Unfortunately, I don't think it works over ssh :-( Serial console, by any chance? > There is one process that, if I try to "ls -la" in it's proc dir, hangs > the ls process. Other processes are ok. That's a good indication. Which process? > Ideas, anyone? I don't even know how to find out which process it was (i > have a general idea, due to the fact that I tried to kill services, and > some of them hung). cat /proc/$PID/cmdline? -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org
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