Mark,
Please retain CC's when replying, otherwise we lose history on the bug
tracker.
Please could you provide the output of:
$ ps aux
.. and also "strace -p" (as root) of the blocked process.
> Of course, reinstalling also resulted in the hang, so I'm just giving
> up on it, yanking it as nothing is indicating a dependency on it, if
> only the system would let me get it off the machine. Once it is off,
> I'll put it back on from scratch, I just need this roadblock out of the
> way.
I understand this is frustrating to you; I am trying to help debug it
which is difficult if I cannot reproduce it myself.
Regards,
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