Hammer: processes blocked on a file

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Mon Jul 28 07:48:23 PDT 2008


:> 
:> 
:> 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.
:
: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'.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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