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Date:      Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:46:19 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Random processes hanging in unkillable state in -BETA6
Message-ID:  <415A3E1B.5010404@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040929040222.GI5115@afflictions.org>
References:  <20040927211341.GB30059@afflictions.org> <20040929040222.GI5115@afflictions.org>

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Damian Gerow wrote:
> I have a number of processes hanging in an unkillable state now that I've
> upgraded from -BETA2 to -BETA6.  Two are ports (firefox and ogle), and one
> is 'dig'.
> 
> I have no idea what's going on.  I've yet to try to gdb any of the
> processes.  I remembered yesterday that I had changed my LANG to
> en_CA.ISO8859-15 in a quest to get international character support on the
> commandline, and some apps have been complaining about that.  Could that be
> causing the trouble?
> 
> Then today, after using dig successfully a few times, it just hung.  Any
> further attempts to use dig result in the same thing -- no output at all,
> and I can't kill the process.  It just sits there.  If I try to attach to
> the running process via ptrace, that hangs as well (though I *can* kill that
> gdb process).
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
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If you look at them with ps -alxH are they all (in particular dig)
all threaded programs?




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