On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Frank Gruellich wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20. May 08: > > Even the simple "pear" command from the command line hangs, strace > > show that it hangs at > > > > futex(0x2ac88d5093a0, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL > > I had this problem with rpm waiting for a lock in its DB. This > futex() call waits forever, that at memory address 0x2ac88d5093a0 > appears a 2. Try to figure out what's mapped on 0x2ac88d5093a0 and > what could write a 2 to it but doesn't. It should also appear > somewhere in the strace. Maybe this gives a clue what it is waiting > for. > > HTH. Kind regards, > Frank. > -- > Sigmentation fault
I can try tomorrow morning... Never thought to see what's in the address, it could give me a clue. I was able to install PEAR-PEAR in the past, now it hangs too, there must be something obvious. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.25-gentoo-r4, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sun May 18 08:04:58 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.05 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list