On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:07:46 +0000 (UTC) George R Goffe via test <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stan, > > Thanks for your response. > > You raise some VERY interesting questions. > > I have successfully upgraded from FC32 (Rawhide) to FC33 (Rawhide) on > this host. No problems. blkid without operands hangs here though, > hence the mentioned bug report on bugzilla.redhat.com. > > As we "speak" blkid on my host running as root is hung (STATE="D"). > Lsof shows only one /dev/sda? partition... the swap partition. The > same is true in the VM. Hmmmmm... > > VirtualBox runs as root. I would assume (I'm aware of what the > letters stand for) that it would support privileged commands and/or > instructions probably emulating some privileged commands/instructions > in order to protect the host from errant guests. I can ask the VBox > people if this is so if you would like me to do so. I do doubt that > VBox is involved since this hang happens with or without VBox. > > I can get a "strace -xvf blkid" trace file if that would help. Well, as Samuel said, my premises were wrong. But it seems that blkid is blocking because it needs a resource. My suspicion would be that something has that resource, and is waiting for blkid. Grid lock. I think the suggestions of Chris Murphy are where to go from here. _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
