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Re: [bug #26585] Assertion failure when signaling zombie pthread


From: olafBuddenhagen
Subject: Re: [bug #26585] Assertion failure when signaling zombie pthread
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 04:51:32 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hi,

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:35:20PM +0000, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote:

> After this, the program hangs and doesn't respond to any signals other
> than SIGKILL.  My guess is that signal handling has been disabled and
> it hangs while waiting for the abort signal to be handled.
> 
> Also ps stops working after this and hangs without outputting
> anything.  So the proc server might also be affected.

That last part is expected: ps queries the processes for certain
information; if the signal thread of a process doesn't work, this query
hangs.

Use ps -M to avoid the query.

-antrik-




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