Logged on on two ttys, running X on one of them, I noticed that xload was
showing a significant load even though top shows the machine idle.
Closed X ,then exit on the supporting tty. TTY hangs.
Run shutdown -r now on other tty, but system does not reboot.
Run shutdown -n -r now , but system does not reboot.
Magic T gives
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel:
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: free sibling
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: task PC stack pid father child younger older
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: init 1 D FFFFFC18 0 1 0 204
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 1 0000000000010000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: kflushd 2 S FFFFFC18 0 2 1 3
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: kswapd 3 S 0000000C 0 3 1 9 2
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: update 8 S FFFFFC18 0 9 1 10 3
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: kerneld 7 S FFFFFC18 0 10 1 36 9
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: crond 5 S FFFFFC18 0 36 1 53 10
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: syslogd 9 S FFFFFC18 0 53 1 55 36
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: klogd 11 R 00000027 0 55 1 57 53
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: rpc.portmap 12 S 00000014 0 57 1 59 55
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: inetd 13 S 00000015 0 59 1 61 57
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: named 14 S 0000001C 0 61 1 63 59
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: lpd 15 S FFFFFC18 0 63 1 65 61
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: rpc.mountd 16 S FFFFFC18 0 65 1 67 63
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: rpc.nfsd 17 S FFFFFC18 0 67 1 84 65
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: gpm 19 S FFFFFC18 0 84 1 155 67
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: innd 25 S FFFFFC18 0 155 1 221 156 84
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: diald 6 S FFFFFC18 0 156 1 166 155
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: bash 4 S FFFFFC18 0 166 1 167 156
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: bash 20 Z FFFFFC18 0 167 1 168 166
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: agetty 18 S 00000014 0 168 1 169 167
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: agetty 21 S 00000015 0 169 1 170 168
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: agetty 22 S 00000013 0 170 1 171 169
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: agetty 26 S FFFFFC18 0 171 1 181 170
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: tail 27 S FFFFFC18 0 179 1 208 180
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: tail 23 S 00000027 0 180 1 179 181
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: tail 28 S 00000027 0 181 1 180 171
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: FvwmButtons 38 Z 0000000C 0 204 1 205
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: FvwmTaskBar 39 Z 0000000E 0 205 1 204 210
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: xclock 32 Z 00000008 0 208 1 209 179
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: xload 33 Z 0000000C 0 209 1 230 208
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: FvwmPager 34 Z 0000000E 0 210 1 205 241
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: overchan 35 S FFFFFC18 0 221 155
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: nxterm 43 Z 00000021 0 230 1 241 209
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: xterm 41 Z 00000020 0 241 1 210 230
Feb 9 16:40:20 shawc kernel: sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
Magic b reboots ok.
This has happened several times, but I have not determined yet what causes
the ghost use of resources.
-- Shaw Carruthers - shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk London SW14 7JW UK This is not a sig( with homage to Magritte).
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