Re: tstile hang [was Re: lilypond building hangs]

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 01:26:08PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 01:12:14PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > I've recently started building lilypond again, but sometimes
> > it doesn't finish.
> > 
> > In these cases, I have a few processes hanging around that I can't
> > even kill.
> 
> I tried cleaning the lilypond work directory manually, but got a
> tstile hang.
> # cd /usr/pkgsrc/print/lilypond/
> # make clean
> load: 0.18  cmd: make 9745 [tstile] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1268k
> load: 0.18  cmd: make 9745 [tstile] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1268k
> load: 0.18  cmd: make 9745 [tstile] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1268k
> load: 0.18  cmd: make 9745 [tstile] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1268k
> load: 0.18  cmd: make 9745 [tstile] 0.01u 0.00s 0% 1268k
> ^C^C^C^C^C^Z
> 
> (that's ctrl-t 5 times, then a few tries at ctrl-c and one at ctrl-z
> -- neither of the last two worked.)

I've seen this too. kill a threaded program (for example, a rump server)
and you system is dead, all new processes hang in tstile.
I'm on amd64

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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