[26566] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.4 linux hangs on activation-client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 6 00:14:57 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
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On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 23:42 -0400, Garry Zacheiss wrote:
> >> User hadron23 (Rui Wu) came by SIPB, unable to login on 9.4 linux
> >> machines (we did not try Solaris). His session would hang after
> >> printing 'Initializing settings...'.
> >>
> >> Debugging (copying xsession to ~/.xsession and adding -x) indicated
> >> that it was hanging in activation-client at line 187:
>
> FYI, this problem seems like it might be relatively common. There's a
> user in the OLC queue with identical symptoms, and I found a couple of
> machines in w20 tonight displaying the same problem for different users.
When people see this, they should gdb attach to the gconfd-2 process
("gdb /usr/athena/libexec/gconfd-2 <pid>") and get a stack trace. If
gconfd-2 is not running or appears to be waiting at its main loop, get a
trace of activation-client.
activation-client is generally the first process in the login sequence
to write into the user's homedir (via gconfd-2), so this could be
indicative of a lingering AFS issue.
