Re: [opensuse] Unclean shutdowns in 10.3

1 Nov 2007

      Hi Will,

I got a repeat today, and it looks to me very much like the bug you
pointed out, but this time with the i686 kernel. I spotted it when I
tried to run "kolour lines", it produced a hourglass cursor in the
task bar, and then refused to come up at all. When I run 'ps aux', it
turned out that  I had klines and a whole bunch of processes in D
state, and then when I tried to shut the system down, I had the same
problem with being unable to unmount '/'. The 'ps aux' output is
attached, and I will add a comment to the bug report. Do you know if
there is a safe kernel version for me to downgrade to in the meantime?
My current 'uname -a' output is

Linux pcmdzikovs 2.6.22.9-0.4-default #1 SMP 2007/10/05 21:32:04 UTC
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thanks,

Myrosia

On 10/31/07, Myrosia Dzikovska  wrote:
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Hi Will,
I am not on x86_64  but actually this sounds very similar. When I was
looking around for causes, I noticed processes that I haven't been
able to kill, even with "kill -9" run as root, and was puzzled by
that. This happened to yast2 twice, and also to kio_http and
kio_imaps. I am running the system with all the updates applied. Now
that I see those bug reports, I would probably be able to submit my
own when it happens again. Is there anything else I could try? Like
which version of the kernel would I have to downgrade to?
Myrosia
On 10/31/07, Will Stephenson  wrote:
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On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Myrosia Dzikovska said:
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I looked through /var/log/messages and /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but
neither seems to have any error messages. I checked my hardware status
with smartctl, and it reports being fine. How could I begin to trace
this?
Have a look at bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336669 and see
if it matches your experience.  Does 'ps aux' before trying to logout/shut
down show a number of processes in the 'D' state?  It sounds like it to me.
Will
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