Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 17 2007 09:47, Jim Sabatke wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 17 2007 08:31, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I'm having somewhat the same problem as I reported a few weeks ago. Occasionally my home directory locks up on an 'ls'. First question: does `ls -n` NOT hang in that case? Yes, 'ls -n' does freeze the system.
The problem usually (to my memory) if not always happen when a message comes from any program using the RPM database. I get errors that the RPM database is in use by another program, or that the program is waiting for a lock on the RPM database. After that point, my system is fubar.
Also, lsof doesn't return anything, so I can't search for what is grabbing the RPM database, but I suspect a lot of the time it's the update program.
That sounds much like a kernel issue. Or bad hardware. Other thoughts would be processes in D state, or hung network mounts.
Jan
I finally got an lsof to work, and it looks like Beagle was attaching itself to the NFS mounts. BTW, it was a real PITA to get rid of Beagle; I had to go through a LOT of dependency fixes to get it off the machine, including a lot of gnome functionality. I haven't had a crash since I removed Beagle, but I don't think the system has been running long enough to really tell. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org