On Monday July 29, martin@hack.org wrote: > > hiya, > > has anyone come across the problem of md devices getting 'stuck'? > currently, if i try to mount/umount md2, or run either raidstop or > mdadm --stop, the commands just hang and /proc/mdstat gives no indication > of anything going on. (the only way to kill the command seems to be to > SIGKILL its parent process...) > > any ideas? You didn't say which kernel you are running ...... > > dope:~ # ps -flw > F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD > 004 S root 4414 4413 0 72 0 - 506 norita 15:33 pts/4 00:00:00 -bash > 000 D root 4438 4414 0 72 0 - 220 ptrace 15:34 pts/4 00:00:00 mdadm --stop /dev/md2 and you don't have a correct System.map file. There is no-way that mdadm will be blocked in ptrace. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html