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Re: [suse-security] SuSE Security Announcement: lprng/html2ps (SuSE-SA:2002:040)
- From: Armin Schöch <schoech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:47:47 +0000 (GMT)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211060842020.29004-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi !
Thanks for all the hints about possible reasons for my problem. In my
case, the first answer from Roman helped me to solve the problem:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Roman Drahtmueller wrote:
> > I'm having trouble applying the new html2ps-1.0b1-428.i386.rpm to an
> > up-to-date SuSE 7.0 machine. I downloaded the rpm from ftp.suse.com
> > and checked the MD5 checksum which is ok. When I apply the rpm to my
> > system with
> > rpm -Fhv html2ps-1.0b1-428.i386.rpm
> > nothing happens and I can't kill the command with Ctrl-C.
> >
> > "ps l" reports (originally one line):
> > 000 0 20608 19894 0 0 2328 992 leaf_m D pts/0 \
> > 0:00 /bin/rpm -U --hash --verbose -- html2ps-1.0b1-428.i386.rpm
> >
> > According to "man ps", the status code "D" means:
> > "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)"
> >
> > I can kill "rpm" with "kill -9 process-ID". If I do so, it takes some
> > seconds until the rpm process is killed.
> >
> > Is someone having the same trouble on a SuSE 7.0 ? Or could give me a
> > hint what may be wrong ?
>
> This looks like a problem with the filesystem or the harddrive underneath.
> Can you see something unusual in the output of "dmesg"?
> Please run the command with an "strace -tfvv" before on the commandline
> and see where it gets stuck.
>
--> "dmesg" did not show anything unusual. So I ran the rpm command
with "strace -tfvv". It turned out that rpm froze at
stat('/mnt/backup'....
where "/mnt/backup" is an NFS-mount.
The NFS-Server was offline when I tried to use "rpm". I guess the
problem was that "/mnt/backup" was not cleanly unmounted before the
NFS-Server was taken offline (done by someone else). Maybe if I had
waited very long, I would have gotten a timeout ?
When the NFS-Server was online again, I could use
"rpm -Fhv html2ps..." without problems.
Best regards from the Baltic Sea!
Armin
--
Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik
D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6
Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY
Email: schoech@xxxxxxxxxxxx Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102
WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50
Thanks for all the hints about possible reasons for my problem. In my
case, the first answer from Roman helped me to solve the problem:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Roman Drahtmueller wrote:
> > I'm having trouble applying the new html2ps-1.0b1-428.i386.rpm to an
> > up-to-date SuSE 7.0 machine. I downloaded the rpm from ftp.suse.com
> > and checked the MD5 checksum which is ok. When I apply the rpm to my
> > system with
> > rpm -Fhv html2ps-1.0b1-428.i386.rpm
> > nothing happens and I can't kill the command with Ctrl-C.
> >
> > "ps l" reports (originally one line):
> > 000 0 20608 19894 0 0 2328 992 leaf_m D pts/0 \
> > 0:00 /bin/rpm -U --hash --verbose -- html2ps-1.0b1-428.i386.rpm
> >
> > According to "man ps", the status code "D" means:
> > "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)"
> >
> > I can kill "rpm" with "kill -9 process-ID". If I do so, it takes some
> > seconds until the rpm process is killed.
> >
> > Is someone having the same trouble on a SuSE 7.0 ? Or could give me a
> > hint what may be wrong ?
>
> This looks like a problem with the filesystem or the harddrive underneath.
> Can you see something unusual in the output of "dmesg"?
> Please run the command with an "strace -tfvv" before on the commandline
> and see where it gets stuck.
>
--> "dmesg" did not show anything unusual. So I ran the rpm command
with "strace -tfvv". It turned out that rpm froze at
stat('/mnt/backup'....
where "/mnt/backup" is an NFS-mount.
The NFS-Server was offline when I tried to use "rpm". I guess the
problem was that "/mnt/backup" was not cleanly unmounted before the
NFS-Server was taken offline (done by someone else). Maybe if I had
waited very long, I would have gotten a timeout ?
When the NFS-Server was online again, I could use
"rpm -Fhv html2ps..." without problems.
Best regards from the Baltic Sea!
Armin
--
Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik
D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6
Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY
Email: schoech@xxxxxxxxxxxx Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102
WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50
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