I would suggest atleast flipping over to console 10 to see if any strange errors are being listed. I recently had a similar thing happening to me and for a couple of days thought it was a piece of software but upon looking at console 10 I found out that me harddrive was the culprit. Markus Roth wrote:
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, <unfinished ...>
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
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