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?

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