sysctl lock, system lockup

[Tim Robbins]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 04:35:55PM -0400, Don Bowman wrote:
> From: Don Bowman [mailto:don at sandvine.com]
> > On the console i ran 'top', but it wouldn't start,
> > giving:
> > 
> > load: 0.00  cmd: top 4282 [sysctl lock] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 180k
> > 
> > as the status. I can't ^C it, can't ssh in.
> > can still ping the device.
> > 
> > It was doing a backgound fsck from an earlier hang.
> > 
> > i have called panic from db, not sure if the core will
> > work properly or not.
> 
> As a followup... i did get a vmcore, and matching kernel.debug,
> if someone can suggest what i might look @?

print sysctllock (or just sysctllock.sx_xholder if you don't have a
serial console set up.)


Tim