Re: PTY bug in 2.6.31-rc3?

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Thu Jul 16 2009 - 14:52:56 EST


Theodore Ts'o writes:
> Hey Alan,
>
> I'm running 2.6.31-rc3, and twice now over about 36 hours all
> pseudo-tty's have stopped working on my system. Everything else works;
> I can fire up gui applications, but starting any new programs that use
> pty's will hang. The only fix seems to be to reboot the system.
>
> I think I remember seeing a similar report, but I thought you said it
> had been fixed in -rc3 --- does this ring a bell?

That exact same thing happended to me yesterday. The machine had been
running -rc3 for a couple of hours when console and all ptys hung. It
answered pings and accepted remote logins, but they hung immediately.
C-A-D initiated a reboot but hung.

Saw nothing interesting in the logs after the hard reboot.

/Mikael
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