On Sunday 25 January 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
>net> wrote:
>> I've been following along and doing my usual canary imitation with the
>> 2.6.2 tree as its released, and I've noted that the configure script has
>> been hanging for about 30 seconds, looking for /usr/bin/smbclient before
>> it goes on, since at least the 0121 version.  0123 reminded me when it did
>> the same just now.
>>
>> Samba is working here, so I'm wondering what this hangup might be trying
>> to tell me?
>
>I don't see any interesting changes to configure since January 1, at
>least.  Can you run 'ps -auxwwf' a few times during the hang to see
>what configure is up to?
>
>Dustin

Ok Dustin, here is a capture of that, stripped to the results of my running
./gh.cf, my build script:  Word wrap off of course..

amanda   15320  0.0  0.0   5492  2228 pts/5    S    10:41   0:00  |   |         
  \_ bash
amanda    9633  0.0  0.0   4648  1028 pts/5    S+   10:51   0:00  |   |         
      \_ /bin/sh ./gh.cf
amanda   10170  6.9  0.0   4960  1576 pts/5    S+   10:51   0:00  |   |         
          
\_ /bin/sh ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-owner=amanda 
--with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes 
--with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ --with-tape-server=coyote 
--with-bsdtcp-security --with-amandahosts 
--with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda --with-config=Daily 
--with-gnutar=/bin/tar
amanda   15605  0.0  0.0   4960   824 pts/5    S+   10:51   0:00  |   |         
              
\_ /bin/sh ./configure --with-user=amanda --with-group=disk --with-owner=amanda 
--with-gnu-ld --prefix=/usr/local --with-tapedev=FILE:/amandatapes 
--with-debugging=/tmp/amanda-dbg/ --with-tape-server=coyote 
--with-bsdtcp-security --with-amandahosts 
--with-configdir=/usr/local/etc/amanda --with-config=Daily 
--with-gnutar=/bin/tar
amanda   15606  1.0  0.0   8320  2528 pts/5    S+   10:51   0:00  |   |         
                  \_ /usr/bin/smbclient 
\\not.a.host.name\notashare -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null
root     19103  0.0  0.0   4712   880 pts/6    Ss   Jan27   0:00  |   \_ su -
root     19127  0.0  0.0   5492  2072 pts/6    S    Jan27   0:00  |   |   \_ 
-bash
root     15607  0.0  0.0   4496   924 pts/6    R+   10:51   0:00  |   |       
\_ ps auxwwf

That was taken about 1.5 seconds after it stalled.  Does that give enough of 
a hint?  FWIW, this version of ps fusses about the - sign, but gives the
same output without it.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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