Unkillable java process BAD!

[Peter Eddy]

Anton Solovyev wrote:
> I have got Fedora Core 2 Release installed on a new HP DL380 2-cpu box.
> 
> Tried to install a product with a Java installer and it hung. Which is 
> ok. What's not ok is that one of the Java processes became unkillable 
> with -KILL and sat on one of the 4 "CPUs" forever.
> 
> I guess, SMP is not quite there yet?

Could be you're running into a Java-related problem reported earlier on 
this list (quoted below.) FC1 and SMP is certainly fine though, I use 
that combination to develop very large Java applications. I haven't had 
a chance to upgrade my development machine to FC2, though I may wait 
until these problems are resolved.

Peter

> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 03:01, Brant Barney wrote:
> 
>>> Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
>>> 
>>
>>>> >On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 22:50, Brant Barney wrote:
>>>> >  
>>>> >
>>>> >May be related to:
>>>> >
>>>> >http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg00645.html
>>>> >
>>>> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121902
>>>> >
>>
>>> 
>>> That's a pretty nasty bug.  Uninstalling the i686 kernel and installing 
>>> the i586 kernel did the trick.  Thanks for the help.
>>> 
> 
> 
> It is indeed. Together with the MBR trashing problem, I'd say they are
> both candidates for a showstopper for FC2, but it's too late now, and as
> I'm not involved in development I'll just shut up  :) 
> 
> You could also try installing Arjan's latest i686 kernel and see if that
> does the trick: 
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Tarjei