From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:56:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120627145607.616e0d6b@weird.wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340795027.1962.0@numa-i>
Helmut Jarausch writes:
> 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:
[...]
> > 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?
At least it happens here, too. And the mount process uses 100% of one of
my cores, this was not expected.
> 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.
Let's see how long 'very long' is, it's hanging for over one hour now. I
will wait some more hours, but that would be one really long timeout.
Wonko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-27 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-27 2:44 [gentoo-user] Hanging mount meino.cramer
2012-06-27 11:03 ` Helmut Jarausch
2012-06-27 12:56 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
2012-06-28 13:45 ` Alex Schuster
2012-06-28 15:00 ` Paul Hartman
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