An explanation for the kernel team: certain types of processes seem
to freeze the entire user desktop for long periods of time (many
seconds). I don't know all the factors that are involved, but programs
that start up and immediately make a large number of I/O calls exhibit
this behavior. One o
reassign 468075 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686
found 468075 2.6.24-4
thanks
Hello kernel maintainers,
Please see this bug log regarding a "soft lockup". A root processes
looping around time() is sufficient to make the system unusable.
Mar 21 13:06:39 libra kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 2
Thanks for the analysis. Why does it only affect aptitude sometimes
(after an upgrade is aborted)? Is that due to some cache? Why isn't
apt/itude using mmap (?)?
Out of curiousity, what kernel and hardware are you using?
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 08:49:13AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri,
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:14:15AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Interestingly, if I run these on a text console, other text consoles
> and the programs running in them are unaffected. Only X suffers a
> complete freeze.
Here's an odd thing.
If I ssh to loc
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:24:17PM -0400, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:31:13PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Most likely some critical part of your X session wanted to access the
> > disk, and it was blocked out by apt. I'm not sure how to
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:31:13PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:55:19PM -0400, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> was heard to say:
> > Hi Apt team, do you know anything about what can cause this ?
> >
> > Benoît, what kernel version?
> >
> > sudo aptitude safe-upgr
#468075 - sudo: system freeze
http://bugs.debian.org./468075
Oops, I'm awfully sorry, but I didn't actually run the command you
gave. When I did, I was immediately able to reproduce the problem.
Bdale, have you tried safe-upgrade under sudo under X?
I suspect this is not a sudo bug, but an apt o
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