Re: cvs head initdb hangs on unixware

On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Zdenek Kotala wrote:

> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:22:25 +0100
> From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
> To: ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr
> Cc: pgsql-hackers list <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] cvs head initdb hangs on unixware
>
> Could you generate a core and send a stacktrace?
>
> kill SIGABRT <pid> should do that.
>
> Zdenek
Hmm. No point doing it, it's not debug enabled, I'm afraid stack trace
won't show us anything usefull.
>
> ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr napsal(a):
>> Hi all,
>>
>> cvs head configured without --enable-debug hang in initdb while making
>> check.
>>
>> warthog doesn't exhibit it because it's configured with debug.
>>
>> when it hangs, postmaster takes 100% cpu doing nothing. initdb waits for it
>> while creating template db.
>>
>> According to truss, the last usefull thing postmaster does is writing 8K
>> zeroes to disk.
>>
>> If someone needs an access to a unixware machine, let me know.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>
>

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