On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > I can't install strace either: [root at intranet ~]# yum install strace -y Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * local-addons: 192.168.1.250 * local-base: 192.168.1.250 * local-extras: 192.168.1.250 * local-updates: 192.168.1.250 * rpmforge: apt.sw.be Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package strace.x86_64 0:4.5.18-5.el5_4.4 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ===================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ===================================================================================================================================================== Installing: strace x86_64 4.5.18-5.el5_4.4 local-updates 177 k Transaction Summary ===================================================================================================================================================== Install 1 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total size: 177 k Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test And that's where it sits and does nothing. The system's load isn't very high: [root at intranet ~]# uptime 14:32:25 up 1 day, 2:05, 6 users, load average: 2.02, 2.02, 2.01 and again /var/log/messages reports nothing related to this problem: [root at intranet ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages 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 Apr 11 14:25:14 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times Apr 11 14:26:44 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times Apr 11 14:28:14 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times Apr 11 14:29:44 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times Apr 11 14:31:14 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times Apr 11 14:32:44 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 6 times Apr 11 14:33:23 intranet snmpd[3912]:last message repeated 3 times Apr 11 14:33:23 intranet snmpd[3912]: Received TERM or STOP signal... shutting down... I stopped snmpd since it's not being used. After that no other errors which tells me what causes this came up. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532