On 11-Jan-2002 Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 11:45, xOr wrote: >> Has this problem gone away in any releases since 0.61.2pre4? > > It would appear that my list feed is lagging somewhat (been getting > blast deliveries of 40+ mails from the list over the last couple of > days). > > I realize that 0.62.0pre3 was just recently released, I haven't yet > updated my systems. However, the spin-lock just happened again this > morning with 0.62.0pre2. I'm attaching the output of 'ps ax' from an > ssh session when the problem occurred to give a better idea what was > running. This time I was unable to solve the problem via an init > change. Instead, I had to issue a poweroff to the system which > understandably took exceptionally long to complete. >
Is it possible evolution is doing something odd here? What was going on when blackbox locked up? Next time try sending a sigpipe of something to blackbox.