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Bug 387803 - Processes start hanging in "D" state on Gentoo guest under vmware host
Summary: Processes start hanging in "D" state on Gentoo guest under vmware host
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Reported: 2011-10-20 08:42 UTC by Andrejs Eigus
Modified: 2014-04-12 18:04 UTC (History)
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Description Andrejs Eigus 2011-10-20 08:42:51 UTC
It is possibly related to gentoo-sources OR open-vmware-tools.  Here are some details:

#uname -a
Linux test 3.0.6-gentoo-mrbyte #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 02:14:44 CEST 2011 x86_64 Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2214 HE AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

The problem started appearing soon after kernel update from 3.0.4-r2 to 3.0.6 and open-vm-tools to 0.0.20110923.491607.  After a while, but not at once since the system boot "emerge" and other processes go into "D" (uninterruptable sleep) state forever.

#ps auxww | grep -P "\sD"
root      1046  0.0  0.0 104660 15092 ?        D    01:00   0:00 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/emerge -q --sync
root      1047  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    01:00   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root      2596  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    01:10   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root      3346  0.0  0.0 106684 15008 ?        D    01:13   0:00 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/emerge -upD world
root      4078  0.0  0.0  20652  2652 ?        Ds   01:16   0:00 -bash
root      4111  0.0  0.0  25620  1304 ?        Ds   01:18   0:00 /sbin/rc reboot
root      4159  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    01:20   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root      5750  0.0  0.0  37768  3712 ?        D    01:30   0:00 mcedit /usr/sbin/run-crons
root      5784  0.0  0.0  20652  2572 ?        Ds   01:31   0:00 -bash
root      5821  0.0  0.0  20548  2532 ?        Ds   01:33   0:00 -bash
root      5838  0.0  0.0  36948  2816 ?        D    01:34   0:00 mcedit /root/scripts/nightly-maintenance.sh
root      6095  0.1  0.0 133044  3068 ?        Dsl  Oct19   1:31 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
root      6118  0.0  0.0  19240  1072 ?        D    01:58   0:00 fsck.ext3 /dev/sda2
root      6146  0.0  0.0  20548  2532 ?        Ds   02:01   0:00 -bash
root      6165  0.0  0.0  19240  1076 ?        D    02:02   0:00 fsck.ext3 /dev/sda2
root      6248  0.0  0.0  20660  2656 ?        Ds   02:10   0:00 -bash
root      6826  0.0  0.0      0     0 tty2     Ds+  Oct19   0:00 [agetty]
root     12863  0.0  0.0  20652  2556 ?        Ds   09:21   0:00 -bash
root     13682  0.0  0.0  20680  2492 ?        Ds   09:46   0:00 -bash
root     13736  0.0  0.0  20548  2544 ?        Ds   09:46   0:00 -bash
root     15364  0.1  0.0 106664 15004 ?        D    10:28   0:00 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/emerge -vp open-vm-tools
root     16785  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     18285  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     19800  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     21412  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     22922  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     24422  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    00:00   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     25946  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    00:10   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     27406  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    00:20   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     28981  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    00:30   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     30502  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    00:40   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     31972  0.0  0.0   4216   316 ?        D    00:50   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun

When I tried to ls /sys/kernel, my bash process also hung.

I enabled some trace and here's dmesg output:

[82201.186033] mcedit          D 0000000103338366     0  5838   5821 0x00000000
[82201.186033]  ffff88013920fdb8 0000000000000086 0000105000000000 0000000000011000
[82201.186033]  0000000000011000 0000000000011000 0000000000011000 ffff88013e47d000
[82201.186033]  0000000000011000 ffff88013920ffd8 ffff88013920ffd8 0000000000011000
[82201.186033] Call Trace:
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff81033d5d>] schedule+0x55/0x57
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff813138df>] __mutex_lock_common.clone.5+0x11c/0x17b
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff8131394c>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe/0x10
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff813136e2>] mutex_lock+0x16/0x27
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c3089>] lookup_create+0x1e/0x8f
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c647f>] sys_mkdirat+0x3d/0xe9
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c2dcd>] ? path_put+0x1d/0x22
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810d1126>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x27/0xc8
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c653e>] sys_mkdir+0x13/0x15
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff81314cd2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[82201.186033] fsck.ext3       D 00000001034a4a6d     0  6118   6117 0x00000004
[82201.186033]  ffff880428d93c88 0000000000000086 ffff880400000000 0000000000011000
[82201.186033]  0000000000011000 0000000000011000 0000000000011000 ffff8804286b0000
[82201.186033]  0000000000011000 ffff880428d93fd8 ffff880428d93fd8 0000000000011000
[82201.186033] Call Trace:
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff81033d5d>] schedule+0x55/0x57
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff813138df>] __mutex_lock_common.clone.5+0x11c/0x17b
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c2c21>] ? exec_permission+0x7c/0x8a
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff8131394c>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe/0x10
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff813136e2>] mutex_lock+0x16/0x27
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c4b54>] do_last.clone.24+0x170/0x531
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c5e96>] path_openat+0xc4/0x328
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c5ca9>] ? user_path_at+0x66/0x95
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c6132>] do_filp_open+0x38/0x84
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810cf7cf>] ? alloc_fd+0x6f/0x119
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810ba28b>] do_sys_open+0x6f/0x108
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810ba33f>] sys_open+0x1b/0x1d
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff81314cd2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[82201.186033] bash            D ffff88042eb2a000     0  6146      1 0x00000004
[82201.186033]  ffff88042df19cc8 0000000000000086 ffff880400000001 0000000000011000
[82201.186033]  0000000000011000 0000000000011000 0000000000011000 ffff88042a9ff000
[82201.186033]  0000000000011000 ffff88042df19fd8 ffff88042df19fd8 0000000000011000
[82201.186033] Call Trace:
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff81033d5d>] schedule+0x55/0x57
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff813138df>] __mutex_lock_common.clone.5+0x11c/0x17b
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff8131394c>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe/0x10
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff813136e2>] mutex_lock+0x16/0x27
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810818b3>] generic_file_aio_write+0x3f/0xb5
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810967a5>] ? pmd_offset+0x14/0x3b
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810ba65b>] do_sync_write+0xc6/0x103
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff8113bf64>] ? security_file_permission+0x29/0x2e
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810bacad>] vfs_write+0xa7/0xfa
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810ba312>] ? do_sys_open+0xf6/0x108
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810baea5>] sys_write+0x45/0x69
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff81314cd2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[82201.186033] fsck.ext3       D 00000001034d28fb     0  6165   6162 0x00000004
[82201.186033]  ffff88042a165c88 0000000000000086 ffff880400000000 0000000000011000
[82201.186033]  0000000000011000 0000000000011000 0000000000011000 ffff8804248f0000
[82201.186033]  0000000000011000 ffff88042a165fd8 ffff88042a165fd8 0000000000011000
[82201.186033] Call Trace:
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff81033d5d>] schedule+0x55/0x57
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff813138df>] __mutex_lock_common.clone.5+0x11c/0x17b
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c2c21>] ? exec_permission+0x7c/0x8a
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff8131394c>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe/0x10
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff813136e2>] mutex_lock+0x16/0x27
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c4b54>] do_last.clone.24+0x170/0x531
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c5e96>] path_openat+0xc4/0x328
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c5ca9>] ? user_path_at+0x66/0x95
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810c6132>] do_filp_open+0x38/0x84
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810cf7cf>] ? alloc_fd+0x6f/0x119
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810ba28b>] do_sys_open+0x6f/0x108
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff810ba33f>] sys_open+0x1b/0x1d
[82201.186033]  [<ffffffff81314cd2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b


As mentioned, these issues started appearing soon after kernel upgrade and/or open-vm-tools upgrade.  However, I am not excluding the problem to be on the side of VMware/hardware.

Would be lovely to get some feedback on this nasty issue.  Perhaps, this issue can also be escalated over to Linux kernel developers, I don't know.  

Andrew

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Rebooting Linux does not immediately cause any problems.  I can run "emerge --sync" or "emerge -upD world" easily after reboot and install/update packages no problem.  However, at night, during the cron job which runs "emerge -q --sync", the process goes into "D" state.  So do some processes that I run from bash.  
Actual Results:  
The below processes are hanging:

#ps auxww | grep -P "\sD"
root      1046  0.0  0.0 104660 15092 ?        D    01:00   0:00 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/emerge -q --sync
root      1047  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    01:00   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root      2596  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    01:10   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root      3346  0.0  0.0 106684 15008 ?        D    01:13   0:00 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/emerge -upD world
root      4078  0.0  0.0  20652  2652 ?        Ds   01:16   0:00 -bash
root      4111  0.0  0.0  25620  1304 ?        Ds   01:18   0:00 /sbin/rc reboot
root      4159  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    01:20   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root      5750  0.0  0.0  37768  3712 ?        D    01:30   0:00 mcedit /usr/sbin/run-crons
root      5784  0.0  0.0  20652  2572 ?        Ds   01:31   0:00 -bash
root      5821  0.0  0.0  20548  2532 ?        Ds   01:33   0:00 -bash
root      5838  0.0  0.0  36948  2816 ?        D    01:34   0:00 mcedit /root/scripts/nightly-maintenance.sh
root      6095  0.1  0.0 133044  3068 ?        Dsl  Oct19   1:31 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd
root      6118  0.0  0.0  19240  1072 ?        D    01:58   0:00 fsck.ext3 /dev/sda2
root      6146  0.0  0.0  20548  2532 ?        Ds   02:01   0:00 -bash
root      6165  0.0  0.0  19240  1076 ?        D    02:02   0:00 fsck.ext3 /dev/sda2
root      6248  0.0  0.0  20660  2656 ?        Ds   02:10   0:00 -bash
root      6826  0.0  0.0      0     0 tty2     Ds+  Oct19   0:00 [agetty]
root     12863  0.0  0.0  20652  2556 ?        Ds   09:21   0:00 -bash
root     13682  0.0  0.0  20680  2492 ?        Ds   09:46   0:00 -bash
root     13736  0.0  0.0  20548  2544 ?        Ds   09:46   0:00 -bash
root     15364  0.1  0.0 106664 15004 ?        D    10:28   0:00 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/emerge -vp open-vm-tools
root     16785  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     18285  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     19800  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     21412  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     22922  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    Oct19   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     24422  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    00:00   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     25946  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    00:10   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     27406  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    00:20   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     28981  0.0  0.0   4216   324 ?        D    00:30   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     30502  0.0  0.0   4216   320 ?        D    00:40   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun
root     31972  0.0  0.0   4216   316 ?        D    00:50   0:00 mkdir -p /var spool/cron/lastrun

There are no error messages in /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/kern.log.
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-10-20 15:30:49 UTC
Please post your `emerge --info CATEGORY/vmware-PKG' output too.
Comment 2 Andrejs Eigus 2011-10-21 06:41:05 UTC
#emerge --info open-vm-tools
Portage 2.1.10.29 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/server, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.0.4-gentoo-r2-mrbyte x86_64)
=================================================================
                        System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.0.4-gentoo-r2-mrbyte-x86_64-Dual-Core_AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_2214_HE-with-gentoo-2.1
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:00:01 +0000
ccache version 3.1.6 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p10
dev-lang/python:          2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.6
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.6-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.1
sys-apps/openrc:          0.9.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.21.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.5.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.4.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r4
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r3
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.13-r4
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 amd64-fbsd x86 ~amd64 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="POSIX"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en ru"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext \ acl acpi alias amd64 asis autoindex bash-completion bcmath bzip2 cache cgi clamav clflush cli cracklib crm114 crypt curl cxx dbus disk_cache domxml dri dspam expat extensions freetype ftp gd gdbm gettext glibc-omitfp gmp gpm hal hardened headers ht iconv imap ithreads jpeg kolab log_config maildir mailtrain mbstring mcrypt memcached memlimit mhash milter mime mimencode mm mmx mmxext mod_php modules mtrr mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nginx nls normalizemime nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre pear png pop3d pppd qmail readline reiserfs session signature-log smp snmp sockets sqlite sse sse2 ssl sysfs syslog sysvipc tcpd threads tidymbstring tiff tokenizer truetype unicode userlocales utf8 valias vhost_alias vhosts vpopmail wddx xml xmlrpc xorg xsl xslt zlib zts" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions auth_basic authz_default authz_host authz_user authn_file alias autoindex deflate dir env expires filter headers log_config mime negotiation rewrite setenvif status" APACHE2_MPMS="event" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access autoindex browser charset empty_gif fastcgi flv geoip gzip map proxy rewrite stub_status upstream_ip_hash upload_progress" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

=================================================================
                        Package Settings
=================================================================

app-emulation/open-vm-tools-0.0.20110923.491607 was built with the following:
USE="(multilib) pic -X -doc -fuse -icu -unity -xinerama"


Additionally, I noticed there's a warning message when installing open-vm-tools:

>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-0.0.20110923.491607/work/open-vm-tools-2011.09.23-491607 ...
 * econf: updating open-vm-tools-2011.09.23-491607/config/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
 * econf: updating open-vm-tools-2011.09.23-491607/config/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-procps --with-dnet --without-kernel-modules --disable-docs --docdir=/usr/share/doc/open-vm-tools-0.0.20110923.491607 --without-x --without-gtk2 --without-gtkmm --without-icu --with-pic --disable-unity --disable-multimon
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-unity

^^^^
Comment 3 Andrejs Eigus 2011-10-23 10:08:07 UTC
I've narrowed it down to the latest version of open-vm-tools (0.0.20110923.491607).  Once I unmerge open-vm-tools, the issue is gone.  I'll try to revert to the previous version of open-vm-tools (0.0.20110821.471295) and see what happens.

I'd think from now on Vadim Kuznetsov could possibly take over this bug.

Andrejs
Comment 4 Andrejs Eigus 2011-10-26 00:12:42 UTC
So I reverted to open-vm-tools-0.0.20110821.471295.ebuild, and there are no issues for 48 hours.  Please consider fixing the latest version, as it causes processes to go to uninterruptible sleep after a while.

Andrejs
Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2013-06-21 20:20:58 UTC
Is this still a problem?
Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2014-04-12 18:04:06 UTC
(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #5)
> Is this still a problem?

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