Alain Spineux <aspineux <at> gmail.com> writes: > > I have a FUSE program in debug mode displaying a lot of debug messages > on the terminal. > After hours the program "freeze" and the terminal looks blocked. > The terminal don't react to key press, nor CTRL-C nor CTRL-Z > > Using gdb, I get 31 threads, the 25 looks strange. > It looks to be blocking on a write() system call while displaying a > debug message to the terminal > Then I tried > # echo hello > /dev/pts/2 > and it's blocking too ! > Other pts on the same host don't block > > How can a pts block ? Probably a problem with ssh or sshd. Using > strace, I can see both waiting on a select() > and not reacting to a key press or to the echo hello > /dev/pts/2. The > ssh client is running on a fedora 11 > > What next ? > > I'm running fedora 14 on x64, but get exactly the same on a f14 i386. > I'm running the same test on centos-6 x64 just now > > Regards I would say take a look at pertinent info (from another terminal on that machine): $ w $ ps aux |grep -i pts Threads: $ ps -eLf |grep -i pts $ ps axms |grep -i pts $ man ps # signals: PENDING or BLOCKED or IGNORED or CAUGHT $ man select JB -- 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