Has anybody else been experiencing problems with F10 hanging?

[Kevin Martin]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 17:29 -0600, Kevin Martin wrote:
>   
>> I'm getting some strange things happening on F10 lately.  In a terminal
>> session if I "ps -ef" or "w" or "ls" or anything of that nature the
>> command runs (sometimes) but never returns the prompt.  Also, my loadavg
>> seems to go sky high but  "top" doesn't necessarily show anything using
>> much CPU (actually, top will often show that  my cpu utilization is 90+%
>> idle while my loadavg is upwards of 10).  I can usually shutdown my
>> "gui"fied apps (like Thunderbird, Firefox, VirtualBox) but if I try and
>> reboot the reboot hangs while trying to shutdown "automount" and I have
>> to cycle the power on the box.  I'm running the latest updates including
>> kernel 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686.  Any thoughts or suggestions are
>> appreciated.
>>     
>
> Does this happen all the time? If not, do you have any hard mounts from
> NFS servers?
>
> If it does happen all the time, try "strace ps -ef" and watch the
> output.
>
> poc
>
>   
No, no NFS mounts at all and it seems to happen sporadically.

dmesg doesn't show anything of particular interest at these times either
(and it is one of the only commands that will finish and give back a
prompt).

Kevin