Re: pkg_chk -uq hangs and can't be killed. (kern/42318)

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:13:18PM -0500, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> Since a recent upgrade of netbsd-5, I'm having a weird problem with 
> pkg_chk - it hangs and cannot be killed. Any processes that spawned it 
> (like the shell, or pkg_comp) are also hung. It's so bad that I've had 
> to cold-reboot to recover from this.

This was a vnode locking bug in NetBSD 5.0_STABLE which was fixed
by this pullup:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2009/11/28/msg003644.html

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/