Re: How to identify specific wait-state for a "DE" process?

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

>I'm pretty sure that the device in question is the console terminal 
>driver /dev/console since the problem does not happen if filemon is 
>sending the entries to a "real" file.  But I can't figure why it is 
>waiting, so I don't know what I should do to satisfy the wait state and 
>continue.

You can use crash(8) to backtrace the process in the kernel.

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