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Re: endless loop in /usr/bin/find ?
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: endless loop in /usr/bin/find ? |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:26:26 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> The detail is that I'm running 4.1.20, according to Suses's yast. But
> you say the bug was introduced later.
That's what the bug report I'm working from said. I have not
personally tested 4.1.20 to see if it is affected by this problem.
> I had found the second of these links, but it didn't seem to match
> my symptoms because (a) the release number doesn't match and (b)
> there's apparently no -follow on the command that was executing on
> my machine.
It sounds like a different bug then, if it is a bug.
> The other odd thing is that this search runs every night and hasn't
> failed again, whereas the symptoms in that bug report look like a
> 'hard', repeatable failure.
Precisely.
I think then that you're seeing a different problem. If it happens
again, could you
1. check the state of the process using "ps" (probably
D, S or R)
2. get a snapshot of what it's doing with "strace -p" and/or
"ltrace -p"
3. and then kill it with "SIGQUIT"
Raise a bug against findutils on the Savannah bug reporting page
(http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils) and attach
1. The output of ps, strace, ltrace etc.
2. the 'find' executable you are using
3. the resulting core file (assuming you are running
with "ulimit -c unlimited").
Thanks,
James.