One more important symptom: When I enter "lsmod" - it completely hanged: /mnt/hd0/download/linux-2.6-latest>lsmod Module Size Used by ^C ^C^C^C And I then attempted kill -9 - but the process cannot be killed: /mnt/hd1/download/linux-next/linux-next>ps -ef|grep lsmod root 4577 1 0 Jun04 ? 00:00:00 lsmod root 4602 1 0 Jun04 ? 00:00:00 lsmod root 4817 4724 0 00:11 pts/3 00:00:00 lsmod /mnt/hd1/download/linux-next/linux-next>kill -9 4817 4577 4602 /mnt/hd1/download/linux-next/linux-next>ps -ef|grep lsmod root 4577 1 0 Jun04 ? 00:00:00 lsmod root 4602 1 0 Jun04 ? 00:00:00 lsmod root 4817 4724 0 00:11 pts/3 00:00:00 lsmod And strace seemed to indicate waiting on read(): /mnt/hd1/download/linux-next/linux-next>strace `which lsmod` execve("/sbin/lsmod", ["/sbin/lsmod"], [/* 43 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804a000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=85363, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 85363, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7fb3000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000?W\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1589908, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fb2000 mmap2(0x55e000, 1308068, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x55e000 mmap2(0x698000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13a) = 0x698000 mmap2(0x69b000, 9636, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x69b000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fb1000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7fb16c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0x698000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x55a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7fb3000, 85363) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804a000 brk(0x806b000) = 0x806b000 open("/proc/modules", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fc7000 write(1, "Module Size Us"..., 38Module Size Used by ) = 38 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7fc6000 read(3, What is happening? At this point - ctrl - C, or ctrl-Z does not generate response. I am not sure how to proceed from here. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html