First, I have Amiga floppy image (say image.adf). Then I type
losetup /dev/loop0 image.adf
mount -t affs /dev/loop0 /mnt
The mount never returns.
It uses memory, but no CPU time (so it isn't looping). Bug in mount? No,
because kill -9 <mount-PID> doesn't kill it. It isn't zombie either.
Then I notice that not any program finishes. When I try to kill some
program, it becomes zombie but doesn't clean up even if init is the parent
process.
Then I write kill -9 -1 as root in tcsh shell (that tries to kill
everything except the shell). After this command every process is zombie,
except the shell. I type /sbin/reboot. Nothing happens, except that it
doesn't return to shell so that I could give more commands. Ctrl-Alt-Del
doesn't work. Only way is to use hard reset button.
Is this a well known problem (as it seems to be very easy to reproduce), or
should I give more information (and what)?
I have 2*32MB swap, 24MB main memory, Pentium 120MHz.
Btw, mount -t affs image.adf /mnt -o loop works fine.
| Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@stekt.oulu.fi>
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