Re: Hard freeze with 2.5.65-mm1

[William Lee Irwin III]

Alexander Hoogerhuis <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> I've had I/O stall a few times while watching movies, but only the
>> mplayer process hung, and I could break it off and restart and it
>> woudl fun again for a few minutes.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:09PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This is a bug in the new nanosleep code.  mplayer asks the kernel for a 50
> millisecond sleep and the kernel gives it a two month sleep instead.
> Please set INITIAL_JIFFIES to zero and retest.
> With what compiler are you building your kernels?

Just hit it with xmms:

$ less /proc/1284/wchan
sys_rt_sigsuspend
$ less /proc/1285/wchan
schedule_timeout
$ less /proc/1286/wchan
schedule_timeout
$ less /proc/16656/wchan
do_clock_nanosleep
$ less /proc/16657/wchan
do_clock_nanosleep

kill -STOP `pidof xmms` ; kill -CONT `pidof xmms` gets it unstuck so
it's not lethal, but still...

-- wli