From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Sjq4B-0005fx-SJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:05:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7603AE07AE; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1E6E0747 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.186]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0M69003NVW29IVH0@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:03:45 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.77,483,1336341600"; d="scan'208";a="182505344" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:03:46 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id q5RB3jBa005790 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:03:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8FF1D5F for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:03:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:03:47 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120627024433.GA3233@solfire> In-reply-to: <20120627024433.GA3233@solfire> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.90-49-g1ba3cef Message-id: <1340795027.1962.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: c845b54f-dbcc-4e6a-9873-5d567b493e49 X-Archives-Hash: fdf14fe30f0bb2145582ffc63d5cfd0f On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > i accidentally tried to mount the extended partition /dev/sda4 > from this disk: > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 > sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x07ec16a2 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 2048 104447 51200 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 104448 12687359 6291456 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/sda3 12687360 222402559 104857600 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 222402560 1953525167 865561304 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 222404608 232890367 5242880 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 232892416 442607615 104857600 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 442609664 652324863 104857600 83 Linux > /dev/sda8 652326912 862042111 104857600 83 Linux > /dev/sda9 862044160 1071759359 104857600 83 Linux > /dev/sda10 1071761408 1281476607 104857600 83 Linux > /dev/sda11 1281478656 1491193855 104857600 83 Linux > /dev/sda12 1491195904 1953525167 231164632 83 Linux > > > which results in a hanging mount process, which cannot be killed. > > I was urged to use the sysreq-key to reboot and get rid of that > process. > > This happens with kernel 3.2.21 and 3.4.4. > > Is this the expected bahviour? > I cannot tell you if kernel hanging in this case is normal. But, if there is any problem during mount, the kernel seems to hang. As far as I remember, it only has a very long time out, but it will 'kill' that mount request some time. Helmut.