Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:33:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: unpleasant ps output and possible related problems. Message-ID: <200109052333.f85NXeB44962@white.dogwood.com>
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I apologize for not having any idea where to start on this. I am not whining for someone to fix something, merely reporting an odd behavior that I have now seen on multiple machines in cae it means something to anybody. I am tracking current almost daily on three machines. Starting yesterday I managed to get one box that refused to go into multiuser mode it would run the rc script and then hang somewhere executing the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. If I Ctrl-C'ed it - it would come up in the single-user mode shell. no login prompt, just the shell. I could however telnet into the thing most things seemed to work. In this state it had hung without starting INN - so I su'ed and tried to start it. INN starts, but I end up at a prompt with a uid of news! If I exit that, INN dies. I do a ps -ax and I get some corrupt lines: 471 p0 Is 0:00.07 -csh (csh) 473 p0 I 0:00.01 su -m 474 p0 S 0:00.04 \M-[\M-!\^D\b\M-X\M-!\^D\b (csh) 12673 p0 R+ 0:00.00 ps ax 466 v0 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0 In troubleshooting this I went back to an older kernel and the problem persists. Change back to an old world and it's gone. Tried the new kernel with old world and it also seems to work fine. So the problem seems to be somewhere in the libs or userland. Now I went and looked at some other systems rebuilt yesterday evening and today and while they still work I see the same sort of corruption as above in the ps output - but no other apparent side effects. The corrupted line shows up in many different places and users, and the exact contents vary, but there's always a "(csh)" at the end. -- Dave Cornejo @ Dogwood Media, Fremont, California (also dcornejo@ieee.org) "There aren't any monkeys chasing us..." - Xochi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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