>I'm currently trying to rebuild X11R6, which I've done before on my sparc
>at home with out any problems. The make just keeps hanging:
>
>I've got about 20 stuck processes, when I attach to them I get nothing from
>kdump:
>
>I've killed alot of the hung processes but here is a listing of the proceses
>currently running, I have indicated the hung ones:
>[...]

This is probably too late to help you now, but in the future you could use
"ps alxwww" to show the name of the wait channel of these processes.  It
might not help you completely, but it couldn't hurt.  At least it would point
you in the right direction.

--Ken