On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 15:03 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Investigating a hanging instance of googleearth (wich process number > > 3110), I noticed that it's possible to > > cd /proc/3110 > > while on the other hand > > ls /proc > > does not show 3110 as being in the proc directory. > > > > Any ideas what's going on? > I can't imagine how that could happen, unless the directory entry > disappeared between you doing the cd and the ls, perhaps because the > process terminated. OTOH is you can reproduce this reliably, it could > merit a Bugzilla report. There's been a suggestion of a race condition. Possibly, but if so it was a very slow race. The condition persisted over (I'd say) at least 10 minutes, during which time I did a number of "cd"s and "ls"s, repeatedly getting the results reported above. Unfortunately by now, it's no longer possible to "cd /proc/3110" on the system. If the condition ever repeats, I'll report further. I was prompted to look by the existence of /home/jonrysh/.googleearth/instance-running-lock (which is supposed to be a symbolic link to /proc/<googleearth-process>) at a time when googleearth was not running. Others may want to investigate when this happens, which it does for me every month or so. jon -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
