just happened to me on an xubuntu 16.04 live system, after having done some heavy IO operations on 1 ntfs drive and 2 unmounted drives (had 2x dd backup stored on an ntfs drive, restored them to the 2 unpartioned drives, ran sync, and.... its been over 10 minutes now, not returning, expected it to take a second or 2...)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/695731 Title: sync hangs and can not be killed Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: Sync hangs. strace stops logging anything after: sync( Process can not be killed and the server needs to be restarted. This is similar to other reports of the same issue which I will link, but I have no USB/NFS/CIFS/etc filesystems. I do have lvm2, HP cciss controller and ext4 filesystems. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-server 2.6.32.21+drm33.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-server x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 30 09:00:58 2010 ExecutablePath: /bin/sync ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en SourcePackage: coreutils To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/695731/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
