Cheers
Paul
Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-06-16T202722+1200, Paul William wrote:
What distribution and kernel are you running? Have you got a current version of reiserfsprogs installed?
$ uname -a
Linux paulscomputer 2.6.0-1-k7 #2 Sun Jan 11 17:06:46 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Given that there are no messages in the kernel logs suggesting a hardware problem, it's possible that you're hitting a kernel bug. 2.6.0 is ancient by 2.6.x standards, so it may be worth upgrading your kernel before wasting too much time with anything else.
$ dpkg-query --show progsreiserfs progsreiserfs 0.3.0.4-3
Note that I said reiserfsprogs. progsreiserfs is a different set of tools, and known to be fairly buggy.
$ ps -eocomm,wchan,state | grep '[m]ount' rpc.mountd schedu S mount io_sch D
Ah, the wait channel has been trunctated... please try that again, except as:
$ ps -eocomm,state,wchan | grep '[m]ount'
It'll either be io_schedule or io_schedule_timeout.
The fact that mount is entering an uninterruptible sleep (D state) is a very bad sign, though. Try fscking the filesystem using the reiserfsck tool from the reiserfsprogs package. I'm not convinced your problem will disappear, but it's the first thing to try.
Cheers, -mjg
