[26577] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.4 linux hangs on activation-client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Sep 7 16:42:42 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 00:45 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 6 Sep 2005
> at 00:13:46 -0400 in <1125980026.19402.340.camel@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>:
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Were the config files in /mit/readable/hadron23 insufficient for you
> to reproduce this?
I tried twice, and got only a pause of maybe five seconds at
"Initializing settings...", after which login proceeded normally.
kchen said on zephyr that he reproduced the problem with paco on
cutter-john, but his stack traces of the two running gconfd-2 processes
showed them waiting at the main loop. So I need a stack trace of the
activation-client process, if one is running, or for someone to figure
out what other command is hanging if one is not running.
