[Crash-utility] crash sometimes doesn't terminate, loops forever looking for a process that doesn't exist

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Tue Nov 8 16:18:15 UTC 2011



----- Original Message -----
> 
> I see this happen on our crash analysis machine:
> 
> crash> sys | fneep
> sh: fneep: command not found
> 
> and then it sits, running up CPU time, until I hit ctrl-C 3 times.
> 
> --Guy

I didn't even try such a thing because Adrien's hanging command was seemingly
foolproof:

> For completeness the command that was being run was looking like this:
> (gdb) p pc->orig_line
> $26 = "log | grep -A1 'some string' >> /some/file", '\000' [...]

Anyway, let me tinker with your example.

Thanks,
  Dave




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