Re: Boot hangs starting postfix

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Well, we made all those lockf changes if people will recall.  It's almost
    certainly related to them.

    A ktrace would help.  I don't know if it would provide enough information,
    but it would definitely help.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

:Hi.
:[moving to bugs@]
:
:On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:33:53PM -0700, R. Joseph Wright wrote:
:> I've spent the last couple of days trying to track this down.  It turns out
:> it didn't always
:> hang at the same point every time.  So I did
:> # chmod -x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*
:> and then tried running each thing individually and it seems that postfix is
:> indeed the culprit.
:> I've had some occasions where it will run for a while before hanging, and
:> others where
:> it hangs pretty much as soon as it starts.  The logfile doesn't give me any
:> telling info that
:> I can see.
:
:I'm seeing a similar lockup here with postfix-2.1.1, and kernel/world
:built yesterday with fresh source. However, it's not a usual lockup;
:when I'm not running X, I can switch between console, but nothing is
:echoed back on the screen, except for ctrl-alt-esc. Does this look like
:the hang you've been seeing?
:
:The ps command in DDB showed that smtp process is stuck in `lockf' state.
:I didn't have time to write down the backtrace, but I can do it on request.
:
:The postfix in question is built on 13 May, and it used to work fine
:until I upgraded the kernel on 30 May. I'm going to rebuild it to see if
:it's reproducible, after backing up the old binary.
:
:Regards.
: