I had a similar problem today when I tried to mount my portable hard drives. The mount process would consume 100% cpu and could not be killed. Further when I tried to give the shutdown/halt command the system would not shut down either. The next time I stopped dbus before attempting to mount again and it worked. However I don't think that this was causing the problem since the next time I could mount even when dbus was running and I can find no plausible explanation for why stopping dbus should help. Now it seems to be working fine - so basically it was a weird problem that just corrected itself after a couple of reboots. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I just finished to get my computer running again, I did a "pacman -Suf", > and the glibc issue made my machine unusable.. > Anyway I fixed that easily without reinstalling anything luckily, but now > on reboot I see something very strange. > There is a process running and keeping my machine busy: > > 357 root 20 0 10700 1004 856 R 99.7 0.0 7:01.50 /bin/mount -o > relatime /dev/sda3 /media/usbhd-sda3 > > but /dev/sda3 is not even a real partition "/dev/sda3 240975 625137344 > 312448185 5 Extended > > I can't kill that process and don't understand where it comes from... any > idea? >
