Michael Tokarev wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > [] >>> The next time you come across something like that, do a SysRq-T dump and >>> post that. It shows a stack trace of all processes - and in particular, >>> where exactly each task is stuck. > >> Yes I got it before I rebooted, ran that and then dmesg > file. >> >> Here it is: >> >> [1172609.665902] ffffffff80747dc0 ffffffff80747dc0 ffffffff80747dc0 ffffffff80744d80 >> [1172609.668768] ffffffff80747dc0 ffff81015c3aa918 ffff810091c899b4 ffff810091c899a8 > > That's only partial list. All the kernel threads - which are most important > in this context - aren't shown. You ran out of dmesg buffer, and the most > interesting entries was at the beginning. If your /var/log partition is > working, the stuff should be in /var/log/kern.log or equivalent. If it's > not working, there is a way to capture the info still, by stopping syslogd, > cat'ing /proc/kmsg to some tmpfs file and scp'ing it elsewhere. or netconsole is actually pretty easy and incredibly useful in this kind of situation even if there's no disk at all :) David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html