On Aug 23, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Chris Quenelle wrote:

> 
> Okay, I'll let it sit for a good long time, and see if it starts going again.
> The fact that the little spinner character stopped spinning reinforced
> my perception that it was hung.  Maybe there's an RFE for the spinner
> in here somewhere.

I've experienced exactly the same on numerous occasions (spinner stops,
looks very hung for a long time). Trussing the process shows plenty of 
activity still happening and patience perseveres. 

-Dave


> 
> --chris
> 
> 
> On Tuesday August 23, at    11:33AM, Shawn Walker wrote:
> 
>> On 08/23/11 10:48, Chris Quenelle wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm seeing pkg update get wedged on my system.
>>> This is on build 171.  When I use the 171 pkg to update my
>>> old 170 BE, I get the same hang (at least a similar read/seek loop).
>>> 
>>> llseek(6, 0x006AF086, SEEK_SET)                     = 7008390
>>> read(6, " p k g : / / s o l a r i".., 131072)       = 131072
>>> llseek(6, 0x01341482, SEEK_SET)                     = 0x01341482
>>> read(6, " p k g : / / s o l a r i".., 131072)       = 131072
>>> llseek(6, 0x012E7680, SEEK_SET)                     = 0x012E7680
>>> read(6, " p k g : / / s o l a r i".., 131072)       = 131072
>>> llseek(6, 0x007E60D2, SEEK_SET)                     = 8282322
>>> read(6, " p k g : / / s o l a r i".., 131072)       = 131072
>>> llseek(6, 0x0125EFAC, SEEK_SET)                     = 0x0125EFAC
>>> read(6, " p k g : / / s o l a r i".., 131072)       = 131072
>>> llseek(6, 0x0159D632, SEEK_SET)                     = 0x0159D632
>>> read(6, " p k g : / / s o l a r i".., 131072)       = 131072
>>> llseek(6, 0x00B6ED9C, SEEK_SET)                     = 11988380
>>> read(6, " p k g : / / s o l a r i".., 131072)       = 131072
>>> llseek(6, 0x016368CF, SEEK_SET)                     = 0x016368CF
>>> 
>>> Is this a known bug?
>>> 
>>> I can supply the host and admin password if anyone wants
>>> to investigate it.  I'll keep the BE around.  But now I'm
>>> going to try booting back to 170 and upgrading to 172 from there.
>> 
>> I doubt it's actually "hung", every time I've looked at this in the past 
>> it's simply been the conflict checking logic seeking around the 
>> action.offset files.  On some systems, this can take some time since it's 
>> highly dependent on how many packages you have installed and how many 
>> actions are in those packages.
>> 
>> If you 'pstack' the process, that would give a better idea of where it's 
>> working at.
>> 
>> -Shawn
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