Re: [coLinux-devel] Applications hanging in nanosleep

[Jason A. P. <pat...@pc...>]

John Milton wrote:

>I did an strace of dselect and dselect just stopped in a
>one second call to nanosleep, which was easy to break out of.
>  
>

I noticed this happened when attempting to upgrade libc6.  It did made a 
call to 'init u' and then a 'sleep 1', and just hung there.  So I ended 
up mangling the script to comment that line out, finish the "upgrade", 
and then rebooted with the newer version of libc6 and init.

>The same sort of thing happened in "/usr/bin/tset -s -m 'network:?xterm'"
>
>Perhaps there's some sort of race condition when sleeping for short intervals. Maybe there should be some logic in there to just
>return if the requested interval happens to have already passed.
>
>I am running coLinux on W2K pro, on a PIII/600 laptop.
>  
>
Hmm.  Me too.  :)


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