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 1SkF4a-0002aq-8F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:47:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDB16E0768; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F71E073B for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:45:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-168-241.netcologne.de [78.35.168.241]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F44CDC056 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:45:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:45:23 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging mount Message-ID: <20120628154523.343c391e@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120627145607.616e0d6b@weird.wonkology.org> References: <20120627024433.GA3233@solfire> <1340795027.1962.0@numa-i> <20120627145607.616e0d6b@weird.wonkology.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ec377940-738d-4216-b7d3-925687a5d0d1 X-Archives-Hash: a73bc5b723f5ef433d78ff2e8d05569b Alex Schuster writes: > Helmut Jarausch writes: > > > On 06/27/2012 04:44:34 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > > 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 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. All I can say now is that the timeout, if there is one, must be larger than 24 hours. Isn't this weird? Wonko