Hammer: processes blocked on a file

[Michael Neumann]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
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:> The machine then stays in this state forever; I have to use the reset switch.
:
:Yeah, I got exactly the same with firefox3. I tried to kill it with 
:"kill -9", but that wasn't possible. Then rebooting showed the same 
:messages as above.
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:Regards,
:
:   Michael

    Michael, if you can recreate the unkillable firefox3 please force a
    kernel dump, which you should be able to do by dropping into the
    debugger and typing 'panic'.
It occured to me once again. I've uploaded vmcore and kernel to my 
crash/ directory.

It seems that the vnode is (dead-) locked and trying to access it (e.g.
typing a "ls" in that directory) blocks that process as well.
Regards,

  Michael