Non responsive state for systemd

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 04.03.13 07:56, David Highley (dhighley at highley-recommended.com) wrote:

> Twice now we have one Fedora 18 system where systemd seems to get into a
> non responsive state. We are not able to get the status of any service
> and we're not able to do an init 6 to restart the system.
> 
> Did notice today that a full process list showed a message about abrt
> and something to the effect "nobody cared". We also see a number of
> defunct processes that seem to never clear. So far the only remedy we
> have found is a hard power cycle.

Can you get a stack trace of PID1? "sudo pstack 1" should already give a
hint, but even better would be a a "bt full" via gdb.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.