Hi All, My one server recently started acting very weird. At fist I couldn't import any images with cobbler as rsync crashes the whole time. I was told to ask on the cobbler list (maybe it's not supported here?) but I left it at that (subscribed to far too many lists already). Yesteday I wanted to copy some stuff from a USB disk to the server (using rsync to update the files which have changed, or new files) but it seems like rsync hangs without any errors. Now, when I tried to update CentOS I get the same "error" in that yum hangs. At the same time I can open a new SSH session and do whatevery I like. But it seems that running a command which takes time to complete hangs. For example: ==================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ===================================================================================================================================================== Removing: iscsi-initiator-utils x86_64 6.2.0.871-0.12.el5_4.1 installed 1.9 M Removing for dependencies: gnome-applet-vm x86_64 0.1.2-1.el5 installed 121 k libvirt x86_64 0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 installed 7.1 M libvirt-python x86_64 0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 installed 431 k python-virtinst noarch 0.400.3-5.el5 installed 1.4 M virt-manager x86_64 0.6.1-8.el5 installed 4.9 M virt-viewer x86_64 0.0.2-3.el5 installed 48 k xen x86_64 3.0.3-94.el5_4.3 installed 4.7 M Transaction Summary ===================================================================================================================================================== Remove 8 Package(s) Reinstall 0 Package(s) Downgrade 0 Package(s) Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test [root@intranet Torrents]# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/ Even running "top" does the same, yet I can't kill "top" with CTRL+C, or even "killall -9 top" from a new SSH session. [root@intranet ~]# ps ax | grep top 20825 pts/6 R+ 0:00 grep top [root@intranet ~]# ps ax | grep rsync 6536 ? D 3:10 rsync -avz --progress /mnt/usb-backup/backups/current/home/www/linux/centos /home/www/linux/ 6537 ? Z 0:00 [rsync] <defunct> 8630 ? S 0:00 rsync -avz --progress --stats /mnt/usb-backup/backups/current/home/www/linux/ /home/www/linux/ 8631 ? Z 0:00 [rsync] <defunct> 20827 pts/6 R+ 0:00 grep rsync [root@intranet ~]# ps ax | grep yum 20390 pts/4 S+ 0:02 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum remove iscsi-initiator-utils 20829 pts/6 R+ 0:00 grep yum [root@intranet ~]# /var/log/messages doesn't show me any errors. Any suggestions on this? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos