ldd leaves the machine unresponsive

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> 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>

> After the upgrade to r205248, the script
> freezes at seemingly random points.

The script is pretty disk intensive. How long do you wait before
giving up on output?

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Marcel Moolenaar
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