what shell are you using? (bash? korn?) what Msec level are you at?
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:35 pm, you wrote: > I've tried to query all of you gurus before regarding various hangs on > my system, but as far as I can tell, nobody has replied to my question. > So, I'll give it a go again. I've read everything on the mailing list > that was written in the last three months about system hangs and freezes > with both 8.1 and 8.2, but none have addressed the problem that I have > been seeing. Most have described complete system freezes where nothing > could be done besides a reboot, but what I am seeing is a bit different. > > I have installed 8.2 on a Dell Precision 410 (Pentium III - 500). > Everything works fine for a while, and then within a period of 24 to 72 > hours, the system develops a strange disregard for any terminal / shell > sessions. Interestingly, I had a similar problem with 7.2 on the same > model machine, and it went away, but I have no idea what cured it. The > strange thing about this is that any current terminal sessions that are > in progress have no problems, and I can do any normal command-line work > without problems. If I am logged into a window manager such as KDE, I > also have no problem starting applications from icons as long as they do > not require a shell to begin or to work properly. If I am using a shell > when this anomaly occurs, and I try to su to another user, it will try > to start another shell, but will hang. At first I thought that the > problem might be related to something with the network. But when I am > waiting for the hanging shell, I can browse the web, etc. Another > interesting bit is that I can ssh into the machine, and will be given a > login prompt, but as soon as ssh tries to invoke a shell, the login hangs. > > I am really at a loss as to what the problem might be. It seems to be > related to shells acquiring a tty, but I'm not sure about that. Now > that I think of it, next time this happens, if I have a terminal open, > I'll try to do a strace on a new shell session to see where the hangup > occurs. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. One other thing > that might be related is the fact that I've had problems shutting the > system down cleanly. The entire shutdown process gets hung up when it > tries to umount the /net subdirectory. I turned off amd, and so far > that seems to have helped, but I only made that change yesterday, so I > cannot be completely sure. > > I'm not sure how experienced some people on this list are with deep > problems like this. The silence from the last one leaves me to believe > that either nobody has a clue or that nobody is interested (because > nobody else has experienced the same problem -- at least nobody has > described the same problem). Either way, if I figure it out, I'll try > to detail what the problem was and how to resolve it. > > Rob
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