On 23:25 31 Dec 2003, Robert Brown <eli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I figgured out what the problem was, --this time--, but it would still | be nice to better understand the general case. This time, it was gpm | was hung up in the middle of reading the mouse when the | keyboard-mouse-display switch was flipped to another machine, so the | mouse got pulled at an inoportune moment. Very interesting! Care to describe how you determined this? You might also find interesting the WCHAN column from a "ps axl" listing. It gives some idea of what type of thing is blocking a process - you can then investigate the suspicious ones with "lsof -p" perhaps. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Archiving the net is like washing toilet paper! - Leader Kibo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
