On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:21:19PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 31.08.11 12:43, Kalev Lember (kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > On 08/31/2011 12:20 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Attached is the output of 'ps afx' on my Fedora 16(-ish) laptop. > > > Scroll down to the bottom and the subject line of this email will make > > > more sense. > > > > > > I can't find anything in Bugzilla about this, and I'm not sure even > > > what component to assign this to. (Although I'll probably try > > > rebooting the machine first and seeing if the problem happens again) > > > > > > kernel-3.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64 > > > systemd-33-1.fc16.x86_64 > > > glibc-2.14.90-1.x86_64 > > > glibc-2.14.90-1.i686 > > > glibc-2.14.90-4.x86_64 > > > > > > Nothing unusual in dmesg. > > > > It's the job of PID 1 to reap zombies without a parent. My guess would > > be that systemd is in a frozen state and not doing that. > > > > Could it be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732020 that's > > causing systemd to abort? > > That would be my guess too. > > Richard, please upgrade to systemd 34-1! After a reboot it so far hasn't happened (systemd 33-1 from F16). I would suspect the kernel 3.0.0-1 was to blame, since that had a known bug with locking (RHBZ#722472). I'll see how it goes anyway, and investigate more if it happens again. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel