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On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Alex Schuster writes: |
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>> Helmut Jarausch writes: |
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>> > On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>> > > i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 |
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>> > > from this disk: |
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>> [...] |
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>> > > which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. |
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>> > I cannot tell you if kernel hanging in this case is normal. |
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>> > But, if there is any problem during mount, the kernel seems to hang. |
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>> > As far as I remember, it only has a very long time out, but it will |
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>> > 'kill' that mount request some time. |
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>> Let's see how long 'very long' is, it's hanging for over one hour now. I |
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>> will wait some more hours, but that would be one really long timeout. |
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> All I can say now is that the timeout, if there is one, must be larger |
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> than 24 hours. |
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> Isn't this weird? |
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Almost all cases of linux hangs I've ever experienced have been from either: |
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1) mount/unmount |
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2) insmod/rmmod |
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and they usually last forever. Sometimes prevent proper shutdown, |
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requiring SysRq magic or usually hard power-off... |
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