Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
An explanation for the kernel team: certain types of processes seem to freeze the entire user desktop for long periods of time (many seconds). I don't know all the factors that are involved, but programs that start up and immediately make a large number of I/O calls exhibit this behavior. One o

Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
reassign 468075 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 found 468075 2.6.24-4 thanks Hello kernel maintainers, Please see this bug log regarding a "soft lockup". A root processes looping around time() is sufficient to make the system unusable. Mar 21 13:06:39 libra kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 2

Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
Thanks for the analysis. Why does it only affect aptitude sometimes (after an upgrade is aborted)? Is that due to some cache? Why isn't apt/itude using mmap (?)? Out of curiousity, what kernel and hardware are you using? On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 08:49:13AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri,

Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:14:15AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Interestingly, if I run these on a text console, other text consoles > and the programs running in them are unaffected. Only X suffers a > complete freeze. Here's an odd thing. If I ssh to loc

Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:24:17PM -0400, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:31:13PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Most likely some critical part of your X session wanted to access the > > disk, and it was blocked out by apt. I'm not sure how to

Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:31:13PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:55:19PM -0400, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > Hi Apt team, do you know anything about what can cause this ? > > > > Benoît, what kernel version? > > > > sudo aptitude safe-upgr

Bug#468075: this bug/#468075 - sudo: system freeze

2008-03-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
#468075 - sudo: system freeze http://bugs.debian.org./468075 Oops, I'm awfully sorry, but I didn't actually run the command you gave. When I did, I was immediately able to reproduce the problem. Bdale, have you tried safe-upgrade under sudo under X? I suspect this is not a sudo bug, but an apt o

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-03-03 Thread Benoît Dejean
Le vendredi 29 février 2008 à 14:46 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:54:32PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 14:48 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:09:22PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > What is your path under su

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:54:32PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 14:48 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:09:22PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > > no, everything is frozen. ^Z won't work until the system gets back to > > > normal. > > What a

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-28 Thread Benoît Dejean
Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 14:48 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:09:22PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > no, everything is frozen. ^Z won't work until the system gets back to > > normal. > What about top output? Starting from top defaults (no .toprc), press: It can't

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:09:22PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 11:49 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:44:37PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > > > > Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 15:08 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > > > On Wed, Feb

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-28 Thread Benoît Dejean
Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 11:49 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:44:37PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > > Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 15:08 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > > > > I've attach

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:44:37PM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 15:08 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > > I've attached my sudoers file. No DNS names. > > > I can't think of any DNS issue that w

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-28 Thread Benoît Dejean
Le mercredi 27 février 2008 à 15:08 -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > I've attached my sudoers file. No DNS names. > > I can't think of any DNS issue that would lock all but root processes for > > 5s. > > > > I've upgraded to 1.6

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:35:23AM +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > Le mardi 26 février 2008 à 16:54 -0700, Bdale Garbee a écrit : > > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:01 +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > > Package: sudo > > > Version: 1.6.9p11-1+b1 > > > > I don't recognize that version number. Where did

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-27 Thread Benoît Dejean
Le mardi 26 février 2008 à 16:54 -0700, Bdale Garbee a écrit : > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:01 +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > > Package: sudo > > Version: 1.6.9p11-1+b1 > > I don't recognize that version number. Where did you get this package > from? sid from ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors/ftp.debia

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-26 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 23:01 +0100, Benoît Dejean wrote: > Package: sudo > Version: 1.6.9p11-1+b1 I don't recognize that version number. Where did you get this package from? > When i run in a root shell "aptitude safe-upgrade", it works fine, no > freeze, aptitude outputs normally and immediatel

Bug#468075: sudo: system freeze

2008-02-26 Thread Benoît Dejean
Package: sudo Version: 1.6.9p11-1+b1 Severity: normal Hello, When i run in a root shell "aptitude safe-upgrade", it works fine, no freeze, aptitude outputs normally and immediately. But if i do from my current user "sudo aptitude safe-upgrade", the whole system freezes for 5s, then it unlocks an