Processes hanging in D state

Jochen Heuer (jogi@planetzork.ping.de)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 03:11:10 +0100


Hello,

I just booted my freshly compiled 2.1.129 and I got a stuck process.

[root@planetzork linux]# ps xl 1128
FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND
0 500 1128 1 0 0 2912 1912 down_failed D ? 0:01 wmaker

[root@planetzork linux]# rgrep -R "*.[chS]" down_failed * | grep -v m68k | grep -v arm
arch/i386/lib/semaphore.S:ENTRY(__down_failed)
arch/i386/lib/semaphore.S:ENTRY(__down_failed_interruptible)
arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS(__down_failed);
arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS(__down_failed_interruptible);
include/asm-i386/semaphore.h:asmlinkage void __down_failed(void /* special register calling convention */);
include/asm-i386/semaphore.h:asmlinkage int __down_failed_interruptible(void /* params in registers */);
include/asm-i386/semaphore.h: * "down_failed" is a special asm handler that calls the C
include/asm-i386/semaphore.h: "jmp __down_failed\n"
include/asm-i386/semaphore.h: "jmp __down_failed_interruptible\n"

/var/log/messages:
Nov 20 02:48:56 planetzork wdm: wdm pipe read error with program /usr/X11R6/bin/wdmLogin, wdm terminating

System is a dual Pentium 133MHz, 128M, SMP, aic7xxx, scsi-only, gcc-2.7.2.3.

If further informations are needed please let me know.

Regards,

Jogi

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