/usr/bin/sync hangs up if called in

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:18:25 +0200, JB (Joachim) wrote:

> Calling /usr/bin/sync manually will hang up. System continues to operate
> and reboots normally.
> 
> This happens with kernel-3.3.1-5.fc17, kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17 and
> glibc-2.15-32.fc17.x86_64.
> 
> Anybody sees this too?

Cannot confirm. Must be something special. How long did you wait?

$ rpm -qf $(which sync)
coreutils-8.15-6.fc17.x86_64
$ rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.15-32.fc17.x86_64

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Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.3.1-5.fc17.x86_64
loadavg: 0.09 0.05 0.05