Re: 2.2.0 lock

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:29:09 GMT


Hi,

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:59:55 +0100 (CET), Adam Kumiszcza
<adamk@3net.net.pl> said:

> 2.2.0 final locks up on my machine the same way as 2.2.0-pre8-ac1 and
> 2.2.0-pre9 did (I posted the error on the list few days ago).

> It all started when xfmail locked up somehow and it wasn't possible to
> kill it (with signal 9 of course). ps didn't show it was a zombie.

Doing a "ps -axl" (you _have_ saved the System.map, haven't you?) and
looking for any recent syslog messages is the best way to get us some
useful debugging information in cases like this.

--Stephen

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