Process stuck with an empty STATE

[YONETANI Tomokazu]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:54:20PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :It's not limited to `git' command; I've seen a similar stuck process
> :(cc1) during buildworld loops on another machine running -DEVELOPMENT.
> :The kernel and the world has been built on August 24, so it's not the
> :lastest.  Does anyone know if it's already been resolved?
> :
> :Thanks.
> 
>     New one to me.  I've never seen this.
> 
>     I think your best bet is to kgdb the live kernel and see if it shows
>     up on 'info threads'.  If you can get a process or thread address out
>     of ps it should be possible to track down the actual state of the
>     process.

No luck with kgdb; the psx macro doesn't show the process 44758.
`info threads' doesn't show any relavant threads, either.

$ ps -o pid,tid,tt,stat,start,command -x |grep -e 44758
44758     0  p3- DEL  Fri08AM  (git)
56964     0  p8  RL+  12:37PM grep -e 44758