On Aug 17 2007 09:47, Jim Sabatke wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Aug 17 2007 08:31, Jim Sabatke wrote:
>>> I'm having somewhat the same problem as I reported a few weeks ago.
>>> Occasionally my home directory locks up on an 'ls'.
>>
>> First question: does `ls -n` NOT hang in that case?
>
>Yes, 'ls -n' does freeze the system.
>
>The problem usually (to my memory) if not always happen when a message
>comes from any program using the RPM database. I get errors that the
>RPM database is in use by another program, or that the program is
>waiting for a lock on the RPM database. After that point, my system is
>fubar.
>
>Also, lsof doesn't return anything, so I can't search for what is
>grabbing the RPM database, but I suspect a lot of the time it's the
>update program.
That sounds much like a kernel issue. Or bad hardware.
Other thoughts would be processes in D state, or hung network mounts.
Jan
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