Subject: cron stops?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/30/2001 18:48:04
Over the last few days I've been having problems with cron stopping
occasionally.

The last things it does before hanging:

 22275 cron     RET   nanosleep 0
 22275 cron     CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfdb8c,0)
 22275 cron     RET   gettimeofday 0
 22275 cron     CALL  __stat13(0x804cd56,0xbfbfdb40)
 22275 cron     NAMI  "tabs"
 22275 cron     RET   __stat13 0
 22275 cron     CALL  __stat13(0x804cd6c,0xbfbfdae0)
 22275 cron     NAMI  "/etc/crontab"
 22275 cron     RET   __stat13 -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
 22275 cron     CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfdb8c,0)
 22275 cron     RET   gettimeofday 0
 22275 cron     CALL  gettimeofday(0xbfbfdb8c,0)
 22275 cron     RET   gettimeofday 0
 22275 cron     CALL  nanosleep(0xbfbfdb8c,0xbfbfdb84)

This looks like the usual minutely set of calls, but this time nanosleep
fails to return.

This is on a PC running NetBSD 1.5.1.

cron stays in this hung state ~forever - it certainly doesn't resolve
itself within 24 hours.

Has anybody else ever seen this problem?

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