[6897] in testers
Re: install/update of 9.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Apr 19 10:07:05 2005
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:06:53 -0400
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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>> Then it claimed to be starting metacity and took a LONG time, but eventually
>> it worked.
>
>I think the "taking a long time" has something to do with gconf, but
>I've only seen it happen occasionally and I haven't tracked it down.
>
>If people do see this happening, and they can ssh into the machine or
>log in on a virtual terminal and try to figure out what's going on with
>ps and strace, that'd be helpful, though it may be difficult to get very
>far without specialized knowledge. (Specifically, if a gconftool-2
>process appears to be just waiting on network input, then it's time to
>strace the gconfd-2 process.)
So, this happened again (note that this was logging in without
customizations). ps -axwww output is at the end of this e-mail.
There were no gconftool-2 processes to strace, and as you can see,
there are 3 gconfd-2 processes, and it looks like dustbuster is
attempting to clean one of them. I have to run to a meeting soon, so
I may attempt to bludgeon this machine into submission so i can get
my work done, but if there are other things I should try in the
future, I can do that.
Attaching to the most recent one shows this:
infinite-loop:~%strace -p 4840
Process 4840 attached - interrupt to quit
gettimeofday({1113919232, 825981}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1113919232, 826158}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=12,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=14,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 5, 13318) = 0
gettimeofday({1113919246, 144915}, NULL) = 0
time(NULL) = 1113919246
time(NULL) = 1113919246
gettimeofday({1113919246, 145462}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=10, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=12,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=14,
events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 5, 30000) = 0
gettimeofday({1113919276, 146352}, NULL) = 0
time(NULL) = 1113919276
time(NULL) = 1113919276
gettimeofday({1113919276, 146866}, NULL) = 0
poll(
(which just repeats forever, AFAICT)
Attaching to other 2 gconf processes was quite interesting, although
I had previously attempted to kill those processes, so perhaps I
contaminated something.
infinite-loop:~%strace -p 3836
Process 3836 attached - interrupt to quit
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++
infinite-loop:~%strace -p 23809
Process 23809 attached - interrupt to quit
--- SIGHUP (Hangup) @ 0 (0) ---
sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++
--------------------------------
ps output
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:00 init [5]
2 ? SN 0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
3 ? S< 0:00 [events/0]
4 ? S< 0:00 [khelper]
5 ? S< 0:00 [kacpid]
20 ? S< 0:00 [kblockd/0]
30 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
31 ? S 0:00 [pdflush]
33 ? S< 0:00 [aio/0]
21 ? S 0:00 [khubd]
32 ? S 0:00 [kswapd0]
107 ? S 0:00 [kseriod]
188 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
986 ? S<s 0:00 udevd
1282 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1283 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1284 ? S 0:00 [kjournald]
1909 ? Ss 0:00 /etc/athena/named
1920 ? Ss 0:00 syslogd -m 0
1924 ? Ss 0:00 klogd -x
1950 ? Ss 0:00 portmap
1969 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.statd
1995 ? Ss 0:00 rpc.idmapd
2058 ? S 0:00 [afs_rxlistener]
2060 ? S 0:00 [afs_callback]
2062 ? S 0:00 [afs_rxevent]
2063 ? S 0:00 /usr/vice/etc/afsd -stat 10000 -daemons 4
-volumes 200 -afsdb -dynroot -fakestat
2065 ? S 0:06 [afsd]
2067 ? S 0:07 [afs_checkserver]
2069 ? S 0:00 [afs_background]
2071 ? S 0:00 [afs_background]
2073 ? S 0:00 [afs_background]
2075 ? S 0:00 [afs_background]
2077 ? S 0:00 [afs_cachetrim]
2362 ? Ss 0:00 inetd
2372 ? SLs 0:00 ntpd
2381 ? Ss 0:01 cupsd
2419 ? Ss 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
2428 ? Ss 0:00 lpd %s
2447 ? Ss 0:00 /etc/athena/sshd
2483 ? Ss 0:00 zhm
2492 ? Ss 0:00 gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2
2501 ? Ss 0:00 crond
2540 ? Ss 0:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon
2549 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
2582 tty1 Ss 0:00 /usr/athena/etc/login.krb5 -- root
2583 tty2 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
--loginprog=/usr/athena/etc/login.krb5 tty2
2617 tty3 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
--loginprog=/usr/athena/etc/login.krb5 tty3
2697 tty4 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
--loginprog=/usr/athena/etc/login.krb5 tty4
2762 tty5 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
--loginprog=/usr/athena/etc/login.krb5 tty5
2763 tty6 Ss+ 0:00 /sbin/mingetty
--loginprog=/usr/athena/etc/login.krb5 tty6
23809 ? S 0:00 /usr/athena/libexec/gconfd-2 4
3602 ? S 0:00 crond
3603 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh -c /etc/athena/desync;
/usr/lib/sendmail -q > /dev/null
3604 ? S 0:00 /etc/athena/desync
3836 ? S 0:00 /usr/athena/libexec/gconfd-2 4
3924 tty1 S 0:00 /usr/athena/etc/login.krb5 -- root
3925 tty1 S 0:00 -bash
4383 ? S 0:00 crond
4384 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh -c /etc/athena/desync 360;
/etc/athena/reactivate > /dev/console 2>&1
4385 ? S 0:00 /etc/athena/desync 360
4757 tty7 Ss+ 0:00 /etc/athena/dm /etc/athena/login/config ttyp0 tty7
4763 ? S 0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt07
4784 ? Ss 0:00 /etc/athena/console -display :0.0
-nosession -inputfd 3
4785 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/athena/login/Xsession 2
4813 ? S 0:00 /bin/athena/tcsh -f
/usr/athena/lib/init/xsession -nocalls
4836 ? S 0:00 metacity
4839 ? S 0:00 dustbuster -s TERM /usr/athena/libexec/gconfd-2 4
4840 ? S 0:00 /usr/athena/libexec/gconfd-2 4
4848 ? S 0:00 activation-client -s iid ==
'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon'
4850 ? Ss 0:00
/usr/athena/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate
--ior-output-fd=11
4852 ? S 0:00 /usr/athena/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon --oaf-ior-fd=19
4856 tty1 R+ 0:00 ps -axwww
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Jonathan Reed
jdreed@mit.edu
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