hello,
does somebody knows what's going on? my problem:
on the average twice per week a process remains suddenly
hang on my laptop (SuSE 7.1 / 2.4.0). As soon as I do a ps
or something similar this process hangs too. I straced the ps
command and got following output:
[snip]
ipc_subcall(0x6, 0x816a308, 0x400, 0xd) = 480
stat64("/proc/1234", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open("/proc/1234/stat", O_RDONLY) = 7
read(7,
It seems that every command hangs (ps, fuser, killall, netstat -ap)
that reads thru the proc file system and tries to open some files
of the process 1234.
If I try to 'cat' the file /proc/1234/stat the same thing happens.
I'm am absolutely not sure, but I guess the process
1234 is httpd (apache 1.3.17 installed). Only if apache is running
this seams to happen. Unfortunately I can't identify the process
because every command I know reads from the proc file system.
the bad thing is, I can't even reboot my machine because this tries
to terminate the processes and hangs too nor can I unmount my
partitions because they are busy.
any ideas what this could be or what i should do?
greetings & thanks
markus
