Hello,

Sam Hartman wrote:
> 
> So, in particular, it looks like kdb5_util is acquiring a lock from 0 to
> bignum that fails, acquiring a lock from 0 to 0 that succeeds, releasing
> the lock from 0 to bignum (which succeeds?), and then while still
> holding the lock from 0 to 0 tries to get another lock from 0 to bignum.
> At least that's what it looks like if I'm reading that correctly.
yes, that is how I interpret the trace. When the process waits for the
lock, fuser shows that principal.ok is opened by the kdb5_util
process.


> I don't know what the significance of 6950411022381350912
> I wonder if that's uninitialized memory of some kind.
Hmm, I think len is allowed to be greater than the file's size. The
above number is between 2^62 and 2^63. BTW, the test machines are 32
bit systems.

Regards
hmw

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