I just had some strange stuff happen to my SuSE 8.2 installation - it's stalling when I try to copy files and run some programs. If I try to kill the process, it doesn't go away (kill -9 pid, as root), and the machine won't shut down because stuff is still running. This coincidentally happened the same day that I started to prepare a replacement hard drive, so it's not on a critical installation (in fact, it's going to be wiped), but I'd still like to know what's going on. Note that I totally disconnected this drive when I was installing on the new one, just to make sure I didn't do anything to hurt it. Any ideas on what this could be or where to look would be appreciated. Greg
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:56:34AM -0400, Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I just had some strange stuff happen to my SuSE 8.2 installation - it's stalling when I try to copy files and run some programs. If I try to kill the process, it doesn't go away (kill -9 pid, as root), and the machine won't shut down because stuff is still running.
This coincidentally happened the same day that I started to prepare a replacement hard drive, so it's not on a critical installation (in fact, it's going to be wiped), but I'd still like to know what's going on. Note that I totally disconnected this drive when I was installing on the new one, just to make sure I didn't do anything to hurt it.
Any ideas on what this could be or where to look would be appreciated.
Greg
Greg, Could you have disk space issues? I know when /tmp is full, strange things happen. Bill
Thanks. The root partition (including /tmp) is only 80% full. I know I've had it higher than that in the past with no problems. Greg Bill Mills-Curran wrote:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:56:34AM -0400, Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I just had some strange stuff happen to my SuSE 8.2 installation - it's stalling when I try to copy files and run some programs. If I try to kill the process, it doesn't go away (kill -9 pid, as root), and the machine won't shut down because stuff is still running.
This coincidentally happened the same day that I started to prepare a replacement hard drive, so it's not on a critical installation (in fact, it's going to be wiped), but I'd still like to know what's going on. Note that I totally disconnected this drive when I was installing on the new one, just to make sure I didn't do anything to hurt it.
Any ideas on what this could be or where to look would be appreciated.
Greg
Greg,
Could you have disk space issues? I know when /tmp is full, strange things happen.
Bill
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On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:56:34AM -0400, Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I just had some strange stuff happen to my SuSE 8.2 installation - it's stalling when I try to copy files and run some programs. If I try to kill the process, it doesn't go away (kill -9 pid, as root), and the machine won't shut down because stuff is still running.
What does "ps auxw" show for those processes? Are they in 'D' or 'Z' state? Does "dmesg" show any kernel errors?
I rebooted the offending drive, and everything seemed to be working fine until I plugged in my usb stick and tried to save a file to it. KWrite would not die. Copying from command line stalled, and control-c wouldn't end it. When I looked back at system messages from Friday, I found this: Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: Filesystem panic (dev 08:01). Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: FAT error Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: File system has been set read-only Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: Directory 230: bad FAT Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=131201, limit=125936 But that didn't happen when the problem occurred today. Output from ps auxw and dmesg are below. Thanks, Greg ps auxw: root 2724 0.6 3.0 31932 15648 ? D 19:24 0:00 kdeinit: kwrite dmesg: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x3538/0x31) is not claimed by any active driver. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: I-Stick2 Model: IntelligentStick Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 251904 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda4 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 3 USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 760 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1350 ----------------- Charles R. Anderson wrote:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:56:34AM -0400, Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I just had some strange stuff happen to my SuSE 8.2 installation - it's stalling when I try to copy files and run some programs. If I try to kill the process, it doesn't go away (kill -9 pid, as root), and the machine won't shut down because stuff is still running.
What does "ps auxw" show for those processes? Are they in 'D' or 'Z' state?
Does "dmesg" show any kernel errors?
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OK, I found a discussion about uninterruptible sleep, and I'm sure the problem is with the usb flash device. It did the same thing in the new installation. Killing my bash shell and logging in again allowed me to unmount the device. I think I might have toasted it a few days ago when I accidentally unplugged the ps2 mouse instead of the usb. It's got a bunch of files with unintelligible names on it now, so I guess I'll try formatting it again. Thanks, Greg Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I rebooted the offending drive, and everything seemed to be working fine until I plugged in my usb stick and tried to save a file to it. KWrite would not die. Copying from command line stalled, and control-c wouldn't end it.
When I looked back at system messages from Friday, I found this: Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: Filesystem panic (dev 08:01). Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: FAT error Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: File system has been set read-only Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: Directory 230: bad FAT
Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jul 16 01:23:43 linux kernel: 08:01: rw=0, want=131201, limit=125936
But that didn't happen when the problem occurred today. Output from ps auxw and dmesg are below.
Thanks, Greg
ps auxw: root 2724 0.6 3.0 31932 15648 ? D 19:24 0:00 kdeinit: kwrite
dmesg: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x3538/0x31) is not claimed by any active driver. Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: I-Stick2 Model: IntelligentStick Rev: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 251904 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda4 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 3 USB Mass Storage support registered. usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 760 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1350 -----------------
Charles R. Anderson wrote:
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:56:34AM -0400, Gregory Avedissian wrote:
I just had some strange stuff happen to my SuSE 8.2 installation - it's stalling when I try to copy files and run some programs. If I try to kill the process, it doesn't go away (kill -9 pid, as root), and the machine won't shut down because stuff is still running.
What does "ps auxw" show for those processes? Are they in 'D' or 'Z' state?
Does "dmesg" show any kernel errors?
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