Bug 73752 – anacron freezes my computer

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Bug 73752 - anacron freezes my computer

Summary:	anacron freezes my computer

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anacron (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Jens Petersen
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2002-09-09 23:29 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:46 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version:	2.3-23
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Last Closed:	2004-01-15 02:55:50 EST
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Description Need Real Name 2002-09-09 23:29:55 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
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Description of problem:
It freezes my computer totally after a few seconds. I had to start from the
rescue cd and chmod -x /etc/init.d/anacron 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/anacron start
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  The computer started to hang, and after a few seconds it was
totally unusable. It was impossible to gain control over my machine, even over
ssh. The only possible thing was to hit the reset button.

Additional info:

i run a strace and wrote the last sentences down.

SIGCHLD (Chile exited) ---
wait4(-1 [WIFEEXITED](s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0, WHOHANG, NULL) = 4500
wait4(-1 0xbffff15c, WNOHANG,NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
sigreturn () = ? (mask now [RTMIN])
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x8075b70, [], 0x4000000}, 8 = 0
write(1, "\n", 1
)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
read(255, "\nexit 0\", 934)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
_exit (0) = ?

PS: I wrote all this by hand, to a sheet of paper, on back on the pc. I may have
made several typos.

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-09-09 23:33:02 EDT

anacron-2.3-22. I have exactly the same problems with cron. (pc hangs when cron
is starting, had to boot from rescue cd and chmod -x)

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2002-09-10 02:22:53 EDT

Hrrm, can you give some more details about your install and hardware?
How much RAM, HD, swap space, CPU?

Output from top would probably be useful too.

What happens if you wait say 5-10min?  Does the machine become usable again?

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2002-09-10 14:19:42 EDT

Mem:   448852K av,  224620K used,  224232K free,       0K shrd,   27612K buff
Swap:  594396K av,       0K used,  594396K free                   93796K cached

df -h -T
Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdh1     ext3    7.3G  6.3G  706M  91% /
none         tmpfs    219M     0  219M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hde1     vfat    6.4G  6.5G     0 100% /mnt/windows
/dev/hde5     vfat     30G   25G  5.9G  81% /mnt/ibm
/dev/hdh5     ext3     66G   65G  863M  99% /mnt/kjempe
krs-dhcp232:/mnt/wd
               nfs     29G   23G  6.3G  78% /mnt/nfs

I have dual celeron333 on a Tekram motherboard. Afaik there is no hardware
problems with my computer, and it has been sucsessfully running RedHat linux
since 6.1 without problems.

Running top (even with -d 1s flag) is useless, because it starts hanging
immideately. 

I have waited for atleast 30min, without any improvement on my computers usability. 

Full Redhat null installation , upgraded from 7.2 -> 7.3 -> 8 beta. 2.4.18-11smp
kernel.

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2003-07-09 22:51:55 EDT

In RHL 8.0 and later, the start of anacron is delayed for 60min after booting.

Do that make things any smoother for you?  Otherwise perhaps you're better off
disabling anacron all together.

Comment 5 Jens Petersen 2003-07-09 23:07:21 EDT

More importantly anacron is now run with "-s" (ie jobs are run serially),
so I suspect this is fixed in RHL 8.0 and 9.

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2003-07-09 23:13:22 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65870 ***

Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2003-07-09 23:16:36 EDT

Oh, but this bug is against RHL 8.0.

Are you using anacron-2.3-23?

Comment 8 Jens Petersen 2004-01-15 02:55:50 EST

Closing for now.

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