On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 14:55:33 -0700, Rick Stevens
<rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Actually, not sure its anything to do with updatedb now. Seems my root
user
is getting a little unstable. A couple of minutes later I got rpm going
into uninterruptable sleep as well, so I tried an rpm -qa <xxx> with
both my
regular user and my root user. Regular user's command worked fine, but
the
root one went into uninterruptable sleep.
Rebooted the computer (couldn't think of any other way or
reinitialising the
root user) and everything works fine as root again. Be interesting to
see
if the problem comes up again.
Check the free space on your root filesystem. It may be getting full.
That can cause a number of weirdnesses. Also check the root user's
mailbox.
Still 3 gig left, and nothing but the usual logwatches in mail. Guess the
best thing is to wait and see if it happens again and try and catch
if it has anything to do with what I was doing at the time.
Cheers,
Dan.
