Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Aug 17 2007 09:47, Jim Sabatke wrote: >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> On Aug 17 2007 08:31, Jim Sabatke wrote: >>>> I'm having somewhat the same problem as I reported a few weeks ago. >>>> Occasionally my home directory locks up on an 'ls'. >>> First question: does `ls -n` NOT hang in that case? >> Yes, 'ls -n' does freeze the system. >> >> The problem usually (to my memory) if not always happen when a message >> comes from any program using the RPM database. I get errors that the >> RPM database is in use by another program, or that the program is >> waiting for a lock on the RPM database. After that point, my system is >> fubar. >> >> Also, lsof doesn't return anything, so I can't search for what is >> grabbing the RPM database, but I suspect a lot of the time it's the >> update program. > > That sounds much like a kernel issue. Or bad hardware. > Other thoughts would be processes in D state, or hung network mounts. > > > > Jan
I finally got an lsof to work, and it looks like Beagle was attaching itself to the NFS mounts. BTW, it was a real PITA to get rid of Beagle; I had to go through a LOT of dependency fixes to get it off the machine, including a lot of gnome functionality. I haven't had a crash since I removed Beagle, but I don't think the system has been running long enough to really tell. Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
