System hangs using audit-0.9.9 (and few versions before)

[Linda Knippers]

> Thanks. The 'long pathname' part of it really ought to be a red herring
> -- if you look at the strace you'll see the auditctl aborts without ever
> trying to send the watch to the kernel. It makes the decision about
> length on its own. Is this _really_ necessary to reproduce the problem?

I thought the same thing but couldn't reproduce it without that in
there.  I think Amy has seen weird behavior under other circumstances
though.

> I'm concerned that SysRq-P isn't working --
> does it work _before_ you get the system into this state?

Not on my ia64 box.

> Can you confirm my understanding of the steps required to reproduce
> this... this ought to suffice? 

Hangs on the first iteration on my box.

-- ljk