From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 04:46:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B1E16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:46:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BCD43D3F for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:46:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (adsl-67-124-49-205.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.124.49.205])i8T4k3IV018553; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:46:04 -0400 Message-ID: <415A3E1B.5010404@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:46:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damian Gerow References: <20040927211341.GB30059@afflictions.org> <20040929040222.GI5115@afflictions.org> In-Reply-To: <20040929040222.GI5115@afflictions.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Random processes hanging in unkillable state in -BETA6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:46:23 -0000 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? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" If you look at them with ps -alxH are they all (in particular dig) all threaded programs?