Re: [leafnode-list] rc8 is hung

[Pierre Abbat <phma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 22 March 2002 04:36, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Pierre Abbat schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. März 2002:
> > Fetchnews has been hung for the last four hours and is not responding to
> > SIGALRM. Here's the backtrace:
> >
> > (gdb) where
> > #0  0x401012c4 in __read ()
>
> What operating system/version is this? If there is more than one kernel
> version, which kernel version is this (uname -r)?
>
> Where fetchnews hung on you, it had just picked an address to connect
> to, and after SIGALRM or a timeout, it would try the next IP of the
> server (if any). However, it looks as though the kernel would block and
> ignore even SIGALRM.
>
> "ps axl" | grep fetchnews
>
> may give some more hints. I'm adding timeout handling to nntpreply, but
> I suspect a kernel bug here.

This is Linux 2.4.3-20mdk. 1.9.18 has done this before. It's also hung where 
it would be dislodged by SIGALRM and continue with the next newsserver.

phma

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