On Sunday 29 December 2002 01:32, rgrant AT blpltd DOT com wrote:
>Jean-Louis Martineau <martinea AT IRO.UMontreal DOT CA> wrote on
> 12/28/2002
>
>01:11:40 PM:
>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 12:11:01PM -0500, rgrant AT blpltd DOT com 
wrote:
>> > After a bit of debugging I found out were amflush hangs, it
>> > seems that
>
>the
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>> > function agets() in function call read_flush() waits forever
>> > and the
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>for
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>> > loop never gets executed, I'm not sure why but maybe someone
>> > on the
>
>list
>
>> > knows.
>>
>> That's normal, the driver process is waiting for input from the
>> amflush process.
>> But why the amflush process send nothing?
>> What is it doing?
>
>It seems to hang at open_dir() in function scan_holdingdir() in
> file holding.c
>I think it might have to do with LVM.

That sounds like you are getting closer to the problem.  My C is 
just rusty enough that I'm not totally following the flow there.  I 
think I'd see what errno and workdir = with a debugging statement 
added right after that line.  But I expect by now you've done that, 
so I'd best shut up and listen, carefully. :-)

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