Hello Dieter, > Dear listmembers, > I am using several Tyan Tiger 2460 motherboards since quite a while. And I am > observing a strange behaviour someone in the list (might) have a clue about. > > I am reading the sensors data periodically every 10 seconds. After an > undefined time (maybe one week, maybe one day, maybe three weeks) sensors > "hangs" after start and cannot be killed any more. A manual call to sensors > ends in a hang as well (of sensors, the board is running on). > Well perhaps I will have future questions: Hmm this seems some race condition in the kernel maybe? If you do ps ax can you see the D state of the process? Any OOPs message in the log? Do you use preempt? (perhaps not) Does cat hang if you do for example cat some value from /sys/bus/i2c/devices.../temp1_input Regards Rudolf
