> Can you give more information? Like what machine do you have,
Intel Pentium 4 1.6Ghz Northwood
256MB Apacer DDR Ram CL2
MSI 845 Ultra ARU Board with latest BIOS
GeForce 4 Ti 4400
BT878-TV
SoundBlaster 128
FritzCard PCI v2
NE2k compatible NW
mb@lfs:/proc> cat devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
6 lp
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
21 sg
43 ttyI
44 cui
45 isdn
68 capi20
81 video_capture
89 i2c
99 ppdev
108 ppp
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw
Block devices:
2 fd
3 ide0
7 loop
9 md
11 sr
22 ide1
80 i2o_block
mb@lfs:/proc> cat cmdline
root=/dev/md0 hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi es1371=0x200 js=2btn mce vga=779 mem=262080K
mb@lfs:/proc> cat filesystems
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev pipefs
ext3
ext2
nodev ramfs
msdos
vfat
iso9660
nodev nfs
reiserfs
nodev devpts
mb@lfs:/proc> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/md0 / reiserfs auto 0 1
/dev/hdc1 /boot ext2 auto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec,nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec,nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec,nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,sync,nodev,nosuid 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/suse reiserfs noauto,user 0 0
#/dev/hdc5 /mnt/suse/boot ext2 noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
/dev/hdc2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
#usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,noauto 0 0
192.168.0.50:/mnt/nfs_1 /mnt/nfs_1 nfs rw,hard,intr,user,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0
mb@lfs:/proc> cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2240.055
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips : 4469.55
> what hard disks type,
two IBM IC35L040 (I know, these disks are not the best :)
with software RAID 0 on reiserfs
mb@lfs:/proc> cat mdstat
Personalities : [raid0]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid0 hdc5[1] hda5[0]
39065792 blocks 4k chunks
unused devices: <none>
mb@lfs:/proc> cat partitions
major minor #blocks name
9 0 39065792 md0
22 0 40209120 hdc
22 1 9544 hdc1
22 2 292824 hdc2
22 3 1 hdc3
22 5 19530976 hdc5
22 6 9765472 hdc6
22 7 10610176 hdc7
3 0 40209120 hda
3 1 3903763 hda1
3 2 289170 hda2
3 3 1 hda3
3 5 19535008 hda5
3 6 16474626 hda6
>what was kmail doing when it got stuck.
I only clicked "save as..." to save a message to disk. Just after clicking
(the save-dialog didn't open) it freezed.
There were some other apps in the past, that freezed and felt into
uninterruptible sleep. There never seemed to be a reason for it.
> Memory, swap space,
(This is mem-status *now* after rebooting to kill kmail)
mb@lfs:~> cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 261718016 157396992 104321024 0 9895936 56741888
Swap: 595943424 41193472 554749952
MemTotal: 255584 kB
MemFree: 101876 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 9664 kB
Cached: 49892 kB
SwapCached: 5520 kB
Active: 26460 kB
Inactive: 103076 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 255584 kB
LowFree: 101876 kB
SwapTotal: 581976 kB
SwapFree: 541748 kB
mb@lfs:/proc> cat swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda2 partition 289160 20120 42
/dev/hdc2 partition 292816 20108 42
> attached devices,
There's no external device connected. (no printer, scanner, etc...)
> distro,
LinuxFromScratch
> configuration of the kernel ... etc?
grep "=[y|m]" .config
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_PGE=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE=y
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_MD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
CONFIG_INET_ECN=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_PKTTYPE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ECN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LENGTH=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_ATM=y
CONFIG_ATM_CLIP=y
CONFIG_ATM_CLIP_NO_ICMP=y
CONFIG_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_I2O=y
CONFIG_I2O_PCI=y
CONFIG_I2O_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_I2O_LAN=y
CONFIG_I2O_SCSI=y
CONFIG_I2O_PROC=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_EQUALIZER=y
CONFIG_TUN=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=y
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=y
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
CONFIG_PPPOE=y
CONFIG_PPPOATM=y
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6=y
CONFIG_ISDN=y
CONFIG_ISDN_BOOL=y
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_BSDCOMP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_AUDIO=y
CONFIG_ISDN_TTY_FAX=y
CONFIG_ISDN_DIVERSION=y
CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX=y
CONFIG_ISDN_HISAX=y
CONFIG_HISAX_EURO=y
CONFIG_HISAX_FRITZ_PCIPNP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI=y
CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPI20=y
CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPIDRV=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
CONFIG_PPDEV=y
CONFIG_I2C=y
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y
CONFIG_I2C_PROC=y
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_INTEL_RNG=y
CONFIG_NVRAM=y
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_AGP=y
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_BT878=y
CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y
CONFIG_SOUND_TVMIXER=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y
CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
mb@lfs:/proc> cat version
Linux version 2.4.21-pre6 (root@lfs) (gcc version 3.2.2) #3 Sam Apr 5 20:23:37 CEST 2003
> It looks like the process is getting really stuck while reading/writing
> from/to disk. You want to check the kernel messages, to see if there
> is something there.
Nothing unusual in syslog.
Thank you for your help.
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