Re: [9fans] installs which hang

2014-06-08 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Jun 7 19:22:41 EDT 2014, st...@quintile.net wrote: > > - timesync. i saw this issue one in 2008, so i don't remember much about > > it. > > I think this was a bug in cron. When the time lept forward as timesync > corrected > the time at boot cron would try to run all the intervening eve

Re: [9fans] installs which hang

2014-06-07 Thread Steve Simon
> - timesync. i saw this issue one in 2008, so i don't remember much about it. I think this was a bug in cron. When the time lept forward as timesync corrected the time at boot cron would try to run all the intervening events and hang the machine. cron now ignores time changes if they are big.

Re: [9fans] installs which hang

2014-06-07 Thread Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:15 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > i don't think this has been mentioned in a while, so i wanted > to quickly jot down a few tricks for looking at a "hung" machine. > > there are three main things that can hang things up on initial boot > that aren't related to the kernel misb

[9fans] installs which hang

2014-06-07 Thread erik quanstrom
i don't think this has been mentioned in a while, so i wanted to quickly jot down a few tricks for looking at a "hung" machine. there are three main things that can hang things up on initial boot that aren't related to the kernel misbehaving - unclean shutdown forcing a fs check. this can take 15