[26567] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.4 linux hangs on activation-client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Tue Sep 6 00:24:30 2005
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From: Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.
I've seen what I think is the same problem on w20-lobby-quick2
consistently, though I was able to login as paco there fine. How does
one run gdb when this happens? Since the login process doesn't finish,
I can't start a shell, and the ttys are disabled on public machines.
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Kevin Chen
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