On 5 February 2017 at 14:47, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> Can you please check if process 12056 is "/bin/sync"? Search for a line
> above looking like
> 3400 execve("/bin/sync", ["sync"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0
Yes it is:
12056 execve("/bin/sync", ["sync"], [/* 18 vars */]) = 0
> Please test if just calling "strace sync" as root hangs as well.
Yes it does
strace sync
.................
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2855152, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 2855152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7fc63a03c000
close(3) = 0
sync(
20 minutes now, exits immediately on my local machine.
Looks like you narrowed it down to an underlying problem.
Thanks very much for your help.
