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Steven, Did you get my message this morning? If it's so repeatable: excellent. When you have started venus, or in fact just after doing insmod coda coda-debug 4095 coda-trace 1 Then do your build and mail me the log (compressed :)) Sorry for all the hassle, it's great that you keep crashing things for us, seriously. - Peter - On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > All, > > Ok, after running into the problems I posted to the list w/ 2.1.86 + coda > patches, I downloaded and built 2.1.89. This hangs 100% of time during > kernel compiles, leaving the process involved unkillable and requiring a > reboot to clear: > > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 242 p3 S 0:00 (bash) > 247 p3 S 0:01 (make) > 1213 p3 S 0:00 make -C arch/i386/boot bzImage > 1243 p3 S 0:00 /bin/sh -c tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmli > 1244 p3 D 0:00 tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CUR > > > FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND > 100100 0 232 160 0 0 14880 5516 do_select S 4 2:11 venus -in > 100 600 242 241 0 0 1176 144 S p3 0:00 (bash) > 100000 600 247 242 0 0 1180 384 wait4 S p3 0:01 (make) > 0 600 1213 247 0 0 1008 472 wait4 S p3 0:00 make -C a > 100000 600 1243 1213 0 0 1180 512 S p3 0:00 /bin/sh - > 0 600 1244 1243 0 0 48 12 down_failed D p3 0:00 tools/bui > > It's clear that 'build' is stuck waiting on "down_failed" (not sure what > this is). > > Like I said, 100% repeatable. It generally happens either during > generation of the kconfig.tk file right up front or, in this case, when > trying to write out a longish file. > > Let me know if there are any steps you'd like done to aid debugging. I > really can't make heads or tails out of the current filesystem / dcache > layer, and with all the churn going on it's a losing battle at best. > > Still, I can break things on demand if that helps <g>. > > Steve > >Received on 1998-03-07 16:45:38