sync binary stalls during backup

Bug #677415 reported by Tony Travis
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: coreutils

This is a follow-up to [Bug 675613], where "dpkg" stalled attempting to sync() and the "sync" binary then stalled when run manually. A similar problem occurred on the same machine when my backup script ran the "sync" binary. This machine has beebn running normally since upgraded to 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04, and these errors have only occurred recently. The problem is unlikely to be in "coreutils", because "dpkg" does not run the "sync" binary. However, the "sync" binary and "dpkg" have both stalled attempting to sync() the filesystem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-server 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 19 11:25:12 2010
ExecutablePath: /bin/sync
InstallationMedia: Bio-Linux 6 based on Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/sh
 PATH=(custom, no user)
SourcePackage: coreutils
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Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Bio-Linux 6 based on Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
Package: coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-server 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-server x86_64
UserGroups:

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Tony Travis (ajtravis) wrote :
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Tony Travis (ajtravis) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected
description: updated
C de-Avillez (hggdh2)
tags: added: sync
tags: removed: sync
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