On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 12:58 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >> At the same time I can open a new SSH session and do whatevery I like. >> But it seems that running a command which takes time to complete >> hangs. > --- > Try killing off those rsyncs and try it again. You need to provide some > other type of error messages. Use strace. tail /var/log/messages and > paste it in your reply. Even if you don't see anything in it that does > not mean someone else can't. You may need a reboot. > > John > > _______________________________________________ John, I already said I can't kill the process and tail -f /var/log/messages *really* doesn't show me anything. I am running tail -f /var/log/message in on SSH window, and at the same time killed & re-ran "yum remove iscsi-initiator-utils -y" in another SSH window. /var/log/message has *nothing* to report. [root at intranet ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages Apr 11 14:18:50 intranet nmbd[4310]: find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Apr 11 14:18:50 intranet nmbd[4310]: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name SOFTDUX<1b> for the workgroup SOFTDUX. Apr 11 14:18:50 intranet nmbd[4310]: Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. Apr 11 14:18:50 intranet nmbd[4310]: [2010/04/11 14:18:50, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(351) Apr 11 14:18:50 intranet nmbd[4310]: find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Apr 11 14:18:50 intranet nmbd[4310]: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name SOFTDUX<1b> for the workgroup SOFTDUX. Apr 11 14:18:50 intranet nmbd[4310]: Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. Apr 11 14:19:14 intranet snmpd[3912]: error scanning interface data (expected 10, got 0) Apr 11 14:20:44 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times Apr 11 14:22:14 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times Apr 11 14:23:44 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times The ONLY "fix" is a reboot, but I don't want to reboot every few minutes (have done it already a few times today as the server is a dev server and everyone else working it (mainly web development) have to wait and this cuts in on production time. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532