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From: Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: pear hangs no FUTEX_WAIT
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:27:19
Message-Id: 200805211927.15920.ti.liame@email.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] pear hangs no FUTEX_WAIT by Frank Gruellich
1 On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Frank Gruellich wrote:
2 > * ti.liame@×××××.it <ti.liame@×××××.it> 20. May 08:
3 > > Even the simple "pear" command from the command line hangs, strace
4 > > show that it hangs at
5 > >
6 > > futex(0x2ac88d5093a0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL
7 >
8 > I had this problem with rpm waiting for a lock in its DB. This
9 > futex() call waits forever, that at memory address 0x2ac88d5093a0
10 > appears a 2. Try to figure out what's mapped on 0x2ac88d5093a0 and
11 > what could write a 2 to it but doesn't. It should also appear
12 > somewhere in the strace. Maybe this gives a clue what it is waiting
13 > for.
14 >
15 > HTH. Kind regards,
16 > Frank.
17 > --
18 > Sigmentation fault
19
20 I can try tomorrow morning... Never thought to see what's in the
21 address, it could give me a clue.
22
23 I was able to install PEAR-PEAR in the past, now it hangs too, there
24 must be something obvious.
25
26 Ciao
27 Francesco
28
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30 Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 18 08:04:58
31 CEST 2008
32 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.05 Bogomips Total
33 aemaeth
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