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To: Thor Clark <thor@tab012.tabula.com>
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Subject: Re: help -system hangs - the ongoing saga 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:18:48 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:27:03 -0700
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>On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, David Greenman wrote:
>
>cool, upgrade time... 
>Until I do, are there any other known triggers/situations I can avoid?

   Of this particular problem? Not that I can think of. There are plenty of
other bugs in 2.1, however.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

>Thanks
>-Thor Clark
>
>> >many of the processes (including init) were waiting with
>> >
>> >lock_write	f020e004
>> >
>> 
>>    This is likely fixed in 2.1.5. There was a bug that could be easily
>> triggered with doing a pair of ps(8)'s at the wrong time and resulted
>> in the above hang.
>> 
>> -DG
>> 
>> David Greenman
>> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>>