serious Openoffice-1.1.3-swriter hang

[Martin Blapp]

Hi,

This sounds like a threading problem. Please upgrade your box to
FreeBSD 5.3 Stable (there have been removed a lot of edge cases
in the threading libraries since 5.3 release. If the problem persists,
we will work on that problem.

--
Martin

> Now normally when killing a hung program, will start with the last
> process created and work my way backwards until the whole thing is gone.
>   However when I tried that this time, the third process could not be
> killed, even with signal 9.  So tried kill the other two, they died just
> fine, the third would still not die.  So I tried shutting down X, which
> shutdown fine, but still left "soffice.bin -writer" still running, I
> tried the killing with signal 9 again, again nothing happened.  At this
> the first time, I tried "shutdown -r now", the only unusual message (and
> this if from memory so forgive me if it is not exact) was at the point
> where the system drops into single user mode, it was:
> "some processes would not stop, ps axl notified"
> at which point it goes on clearing buffers and syncing the disks, the
> disk sync completes, there is a message about no buffers in use, at
> which point it hangs, and will not complete the shutdown.
> The second time openoffice writer hung, instead of trying to shutdown
> and reboot all at once, I used "shutdown now" to drop into single user
> mode. In single user mode using "ps -waux" the "soffice.bin -writer"
> process was still showing up, I tried one more time to kill it, and
> still it would not die.  At this point I tried to complete the shutdown
> with "halt", as the first the shutdown hung immediately upon completing
> the disk sync.
> At this stage in both instances when the shutdown was hung, I tried
> turning the computer off with the power button on the front (soft power
> button) in both cases it would not shut off the computer.  I got a acpi
> error message saying that the button was ignored because the computer
> wasn't ready. In both cases I then resorted to the hard power switch
> located on the power supply in the back of the case.