innd lockup

[Russ Allbery]

Eddie Stassen <eddies at saix.net> writes:

> I am currently experiencing a problem where innd locks up completely at
> random times.  In this state not even a kill -9 will do it and I have to
> reboot.  I remember reading about this problem in the archives, but
> there did'nt seem to be any solution.  Has anyone found a cause for this
> condition?  I have also noticed on a few occasions when this happened
> that doing a 'ls -l' in /usr/local/news/db causes my session to lock up
> in the same fashion.

This sounds very much like disk problems of some kind to me, particularly
given that ls -l may produce the same symptom and innd becomes unkillable
(which suggests I/O wait).

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>