On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Emmanuel De Paepe < emmanuel_depaepe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How safe is this command? > > I used this on my computer (not as a su) in Solaris 10 and suddenly the > whole environment was hanging. I logged in from another computer on this > machine and could perform an 'init 6' without a problem. So apparently it > made the GUI hang. > Normally quite safe, but I recall something about hangs / lock-ups when tracing something which is in the path to update the display. This is probably due to breakpoints in the code causing a performance overhead. You may, in some cases, be able to avert the problem by diverting the output to a file. Which process did you truss, and what command-line options did you use? The parent shell, or your x-windows session, or x-windows terminal program maybe? Did you try to kill the truss process before you rebooted the system? -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Afrikaanse Stap Website: http://www.bloukous.co.za My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080806/65003eaa/attachment.html>
