Re: lockups when mounting /var/shm

From: Billy Harvey (Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 13:50:16 EST


Christoph Rohland writes:
> Billy Harvey <Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net> writes:
> > Following the guidance to mount shm, I was able to get some (not all)
> > userland programs to work again. However, one difficulty I discovered
> > is that if a "mount -a" is done (under 2.3.99-pre1), the system will
> > lock solid in about 10 seconds - only the reset button will recover.
> >
> > This occurs whether a mount point for shm is defined in fstab or not.
>
> It locks up after mounting without doing anything further? Or do you
> start other programs also?

Christoph,

It was never returning from the "mount -a" command, and would
eventually lock.

>
> > The userland program that I noticed did work with shm mounted was
> > apache, and one that still did not was mysql. Each is the binary from
> > the latest (woody) debian.
>
> Could you test 2.3.99-pre2-4?
>
> Greetings
> Christoph

2.3.99-pre2-4 seems to work fine for the re-mount. Apache works. Mysql
works. Smbclient (a possible problem in the "mount" above?) works.

Regards,
Billy

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