reassign 613925 src:linux thanks > This bug seems to still exist in the current kernel version for Wheezy. > But it is very rare; today it happened after 18 days' uptime, and once > before after 30+ days uptime. This is a desktop machine with a single > SSD SATA drive with usually only light I/O workload. > > Today I noticed all my iceweasel and xfce4-terminal windows had frozen. > > >From a virtual terminal, as root, "ls /tmp" froze (in the getdents > syscall) but could be killed. My other reiserfs partitions on the same > block device worked fine. > > My 'master' xfce4-terminal process was in a blocked state and could not > be killed. This, and some unreaped xfce4-terminal child processes that > I'd tried to kill already, had some open, deleted inodes on /tmp > > I thought I was going to have to reboot, but just out of curiosity I > killed iceweasel (via the 'non-responding window' feature of xfce4 > window manager). Immediately my system recovered with /tmp > readable/writable again. > > I think this suggests it was not a hardware issue, but some deadlock > between processes doing I/O on reiserfs. > > Last time this happened to me it was the /var partition rather than /tmp > > This problem didn't ever occur in many months of using the Squeeze > 2.6.32 kernel. > > [I would miss reiserfs very much. It has provided me with 100% > durability for many years and performed well. Even when I once trashed > the underlying mdraid on another system, reiserfsck rescued my data].
Hi Steven, hi Bastien, Jeff Mahoney has posted patches in the upstream bug in May: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29162 Are you in a position to test them and provide him with feedback? Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
