On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 07:30 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 09:19:24AM -0500, Matt wrote:
> > Sorry - should have been more specific than the generic "stuck"
> > description.  Top shows the process state as "fu_msg" and it is not
> > consuming any processor resources, just seemingly sits there idling.
> > Output from ps is:
> > 
> >   UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ   RSS MWCHAN STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
> >  1000  4019     1   0  44  0  6324  2528 -      Ts    ??    0:00.00
> > /usr/local/libexec//gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/mtosto
> 
> The "T" flag under State says that the process is stopped.  It's as if
> the process was running in the foreground, and was ^Z'd -- same
> behaviour.

I don't want to state the obvious, but attaching to the process with gdb
will produce the stopped state.  Was this ps snap taken before or after
attaching with gdb?

robert.

> The part which confuses me (I'm sure others can explain this part) is
> that the parent PID is 1, which is init.  This would indicate that the
> process is actually a zombie whose parent has been killed off, and the
> child's parent has been assigned to init.
> 
> You might try doing a "kill -CONT" on the process to see what happens.
> 
> I don't think truss or ktrace are going to help here, because something
> is explicitly stopping the process (SIGSTOP or some other means).
> 

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