On Wed 31-10-12 13:46:00, Nikola Ciprich wrote: > Hi Jan, > > thanks for the reply, sure, I'll gather and post requested info. > One more note before that, the problem is with psacct, not audit > - psacct if I'm not mistaken (and as opposed to audit) doesn't > use any userspace, kernel dumps information directly to fs, > which might the reason for deadlock.. Ah, right. Now I looked into the right code and I can see what's the problem. I'll see what we could do about that... So far I don't have a better idea than just dropping accounting records that should be written to frozen filesystem (as you have nowhere to write those records to). Honza > > > Should more debugging information be needed, I'll be glad to provide whatever I can.. > > Thanks for report. Hum, I'm not sure how the deadlock can happen because > > AFAIU audit sends a message via netlink to userspace and whatever audit > > daemon does with it is its private thing. Can you please run: > > echo w >/proc/sysrq-trigger > > after the machine deadlocks and then take dmesg and attach it here? You'll > > have to have the shell prepared and use serial console / netconsole to gather > > dmesg or try your luck with copying via ssh / netcat. > > > > Honza > > -- > > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > > SUSE Labs, CR > > > > -- > ------------------------------------- > Ing. Nikola CIPRICH > LinuxBox.cz, s.r.o. > 28.rijna 168, 709 00 Ostrava > > tel.: +420 591 166 214 > fax: +420 596 621 273 > mobil: +420 777 093 799 > www.linuxbox.cz > > mobil servis: +420 737 238 656 > email servis: servis@xxxxxxxxxxx > ------------------------------------- -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
