From: ktn (ktn@dodo.com.au)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2004 - 19:51:33 EDT
It doesn't make sense still. I realised that the problem(s) are actually
happening only on some users (I think users who have logged in before). The
users on these servers are ldap users with home directories mounted from
another host, and I initially thought it could be dodgy mounts (since file
users like root have no problems). But remounting doesn't seem to help.
A new discovery though: I tried running things like opera and gnome with a
'new' ldap user, and things appear normal. My other active users complain
that opera stays asleep/hung (truss reveals one line: fcntl(3, F_SETLKW64,
0xFFBFE5A8) (sleeping...) - but I'm not sure what it means).
Another weird thing is acroread runs fine now after I've reinstalled it
(binary installation). I don't see any permission differences between the
two installation areas. Can anyone explain why this happens? Any other
things I can do? (I think this could also be the reason my gupdatedb
processes for glocate are hanging - can anyone clarify this?)
Original Q:
>
> Dear managers,
>
> I am not able to run things like acroread, opera, kde, gnome at the moment
> on two of my solaris 9 112233-12 servers. They just hang and do nothing:
> acroread core dumps when I kill it, KDE logs in really slowly & ends
up at a
> gray screen.
>
> The only common thing between these servers are:
> - I've installed on them both are patches 112807-10, 116807-01
> - rebooted them to fix a hanging gupdatedb/gfind problem on both of them,
> - which is still happening. I have a cron job to run
> /opt/sfw/bin/gupdatedb.sh daily, but these days it seems to run really
> slowly (or perhaps it is a hang?) on these two servers with gfind chewing
> 20+% CPU. (found out from another sunmanagers summary that a reboot fixes
> this for Solaris 9. It worked before for me, but not this time).
>
> My only hint is logging in as root displays acroread and opera normally.
> Would appreciate it if anyone can tell me which further info I should give
> to find out the source of these problems. It's quite peculiar that these
two
> machines are giving similar symptoms.
>
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