Re: Weird PostgreSQL crashes on FC2/FC3 64-bit - Mailing list pgsql-general

From William Yu
Subject Re: Weird PostgreSQL crashes on FC2/FC3 64-bit
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Msg-id 420073EF.20406@talisys.com
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In response to Re: Weird PostgreSQL crashes on FC2/FC3 64-bit  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Weird PostgreSQL crashes on FC2/FC3 64-bit  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> William Yu <wyu@talisys.com> writes:
>
>>Doing a ps -ef | grep postgres, I will see something like:
>
>
>>root     17034     1  0 21:41 ?        00:00:00 gdb -q -x /dev/stdin postgres 9131
>>postgres  9131  2712  0 20:31 ?        00:00:00 postgres: postgres netdata [local] VACUUM
>
>
> So where did the gdb come from?

To be honest, I do not know. I see the parent process is 1 so something
in the FCx kernel is triggering it. I just don't know where the logs for
something like this would be.


>>The strange thing is I cannot kill the dead process.
>
>
> It's not dead --- gdb has got it by the throat.

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