ldd leaves the machine unresponsive

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 07:27:43AM -0400, jhell wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:15, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> In Message-Id: <20100319211535.GA76683 at mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:29:36AM -0400, jhell wrote:
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> >> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >> In Message-Id: <20100317163230.GJ87732 at mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
> >>
> >>> Just updated to ia64 r205248
> >>>
> >>> If my problem is due to my mis-configuration,
> >>> I apologise in advance.
> >>>
> >>> I run this shell script after each upgrade
> >>> and 'make delete-old-libs' to check
> >>> if any shared objects need to be rebuilt:
> >>>
> >>> <start script>
> >>>
> >>> #!/bin/sh
> >>>
> >>> for file in `find /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/lib /usr/libexec /usr/local -name "*"`
> >>> do
> >>>        echo $file
> >>>        ldd $file >> /root/ldd_results 2> /dev/zero
> >>> done
> >>>
> >>> <end script>
> >>>
> >>
> >> This will probably do closer to what you actually would want to look for.
> >>
> >> Writing to /dev/zero ... I don't know never tried it since /dev/null is
> >> usually the standard place to throw trash.
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> for file in `find /*bin /usr/*bin /usr/lib* /usr/local/*bin -type f` do
> >>  	echo $file
> >>  	ldd $file >>/root/ldd_results 2>/dev/null
> >> done
> >>
> >> The problem with your script is that it finds most files that it can not
> >> or is not useful to run ldd on and leaves you junk in return.
> >>
> >> It might be more useful if you searched for dynamically linked ELF
> >> binaries to run ldd against like the following.
> >>
> >> === Script starts here ===
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >>
> >> SEARCHPATH="/*bin /usr/*bin /usr/lib* /usr/local/*bin"
> >>
> >> trap 'exit 1' 2
> >>
> >> check_libs() {
> >> for spath in $SEARCHPATH; do
> >>          for ifelf in `find $spath -type f`; do
> >>                  ldd `file $ifelf | grep dynamically | cut -f1 -d:`
> >>          done
> >> done
> >> }
> >>
> >> check_libs 2>/dev/null
> >> === Script ends here ===
> >>
> >> The above will find all type ELF * that are dynamically linked within the
> >> SEARCHPATH variable and run ldd on them and print the results to stdout.
> >>
> >> Obviously since you are going to have thousands of files being questioned,
> >> stdout is not going to be useful.
> >>
> >> So with the about stated:
> >> save the script to: checklibs.sh
> >> run with: "sh checklibs.sh >/root/checklibs_output"
> >> or: "script /root/checklibs_output checklibs.sh"
> >>
> >>> After the upgrade to r205248, the script
> >>> freezes at seemingly random points.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Unneeded disk usage & execution.
> >>
> >>> I can still ssh to the machine (using keys), i.e.
> >>> I see the welcome message, but cannot get to the console prompt.
> >>
> >> Of course... to many open files or processes in wait. SSH already has the
> >> information it needs loaded into memory, that's why you can get sort-of-in
> >>
> >> ZFS file-system perhaps ?
> >
> > I've no ZFS.
> >
> > I'm seeing very similar behaviour now with csup:
> >
> > ( I do csup -L2 /root/ports-supfile, where
> >
> > # cat /root/ports-supfile
> > *default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
> > *default base=/var/db
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default release=cvs tag=. delete use-rel-suffix compress
> >
> > ports-all
> > # )
> >
> > top(1) shows:
> >
> > last pid:  1160;  load averages:  0.00,  0.06,  0.07                                                                           up 0+00:10:53  15:05:52
> > 81 processes:  3 running, 61 sleeping, 17 waiting
> > CPU 0:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.2% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.8% idle
> > CPU 1:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
> > Mem: 23M Active, 19M Inact, 75M Wired, 136K Cache, 34M Buf, 5900M Free
> > Swap: 2780M Total, 2780M Free
> >
> >  PID    UID    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> >   10      0      2 171 ki31     0K    64K RUN     0  20:18 198.00% idle
> >   11      0     17 -48    -     0K   544K WAIT    0   0:01  0.00% intr
> > 1118   1001      1  96    0 12800K  3920K CPU0    0   0:00  0.00% top
> >    4      0      1  -8    -     0K    32K -       1   0:00  0.00% g_down
> > 1158      0      4  -8    0 43672K  6296K biowr   0   0:00  0.00% csup
> >
> >
> > which stays in biowr state indefinitely.
> >
> > I can issue kill -9 or kill -HUP from top(1),
> > which makes csup change state to STOP, but
> > nothing else happens.
> >
> > As before, I can't log in from other terminals
> > and have to do a cold reset. I've reinstalled
> > on another disk, so not sure what's going on.
> >
> > I think rm(1) is also extremely slow, but
> > maybe I'm imagining things.
> >
> > many thanks
> > anton
> >
> >
> 
> 
> I would post up the contents of your make.conf & your kernel config & your 
> dmesg somewhere so it can be evaluated.

When I reinstalled 8.0 from a CD,
I updated source with csup, that worked.
However, after upgrading to current, I can't get
any luck with csup. The important bit is that
I don't really know what revision this is.

I've no /etc/make.conf

kernel config:
	http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/rx2600/uzi/UZI

dmesg:
	http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/rx2600/uzi/dmesg.boot

many thanks for your help
anton
 
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