"sleeping without queue" ?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:13:25PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Kris Kennaway ???????(??):
>> Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> My attempt to build openoffice.org-3 seems to be hanging. Pressing  
>>> Ctrl-T produces:
>>>
>>>    load: 0.11  cmd: tcsh 79759 [sleeping without queue] 0.00u 0.00s  
>>> 0% 0k
>>>
>>> (tcsh is used by OOo's build-script). What is this "sleeping without  
>>> queue" state, and why is process in it for so long?
>>>
>>> This is an 4-CPU amd64 system with 4Gb of RAM. Only 16% of the swap  
>>> is currently in use and the box seems to be perfectly fine otherwise. 
>>> Uptime is 55 days, two different X-sessions are functional... The  
>>> kernel is FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sat Mar  8 16:02:37.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> What is the process backtrace?
> Hard to say... The process ID 79759. According to ps(1), that PID exists:
> 79759  p6  DE+    0:00,00 /bin/tcsh -fc  
> /meow/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/BEB300_m3/solver/300/unxfbsdx.pro/bin/makedepend 
> @/tmp/mk2WUYYi > ../../../unxfbsdx.pro/misc/s_addincol.dpcc
> According to gdb, it does not:
> gdb 79759
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> This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...79759: No such file  
> or directory.

Syntax appears wrong; "gdb [program] 79759" would be what you want.

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