Earlier today, I tried to unlock xscreensaver on my desktop. After
typing in the password, it said "Checking..." and then hung. In
response, I hit Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, which killed X. However, gdm did not
restart X. I tried logging in on the console, but none of them were
responsive; characters would echo, but nothing else.
In hopes of finding the problem, I entered kdb, and did a bta. All
processes were hung in exactly the same spot, schedule+0x268! This code
is as follows:
0xc0110d50 <schedule+252>: jne 0xc0110d7e <schedule+298>
0xc0110d52 <schedule+254>: test %eax,%eax
0xc0110d54 <schedule+256>: jne 0xc0110d72 <schedule+286>
0xc0110d56 <schedule+258>: mov 0xffffffe4(%ecx),%edx
0xc0110d59 <schedule+261>: test %edx,%edx
0xc0110d5b <schedule+263>: je 0xc0110d7e <schedule+298>
0xc0110d5d <schedule+265>: mov 0xfffffff0(%ecx),%eax
0xc0110d60 <schedule+268>: cmp 0xfffffff0(%ebp),%eax
0xc0110d63 <schedule+271>: je 0xc0110d69 <schedule+277>
0xc0110d65 <schedule+273>: test %eax,%eax
0xc0110d67 <schedule+275>: jne 0xc0110d6a <schedule+278>
0xc0110d69 <schedule+277>: inc %edx
0xc0110d6a <schedule+278>: add $0x14,%edx
0xc0110d6d <schedule+281>: sub 0x24(%esi),%edx
0xc0110d70 <schedule+284>: jmp 0xc0110d7e <schedule+298>
Additionally, I did a "ps" in kdb and found dozens of "cron" and "sh"
started. I suspect that these processes were somehow related to the
lockup, as the machine should've been idle for hours, and no cron jobs
were scheduled for the time.
The captured "bta" is availible if anyone is interested. I don't know
of a way to reproduce this offhand.
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