Re: Probably OT: login stalls
Re: Probably OT: login stalls
- Subject: Re: Probably OT: login stalls
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:16:48 -0700
On Sep 21, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Andreas Grosam < email@hidden> wrote: When attempting to open a Terminal window with a bash shell, the new console window "stalls" for a significant time, say 20 seconds or so until it eventually becomes ready. This will also affect other Terminal windows and also programs trying to read from disk, which stall as well (for example Mail when trying to read from disk).
Blocking for that long in a single read() sys call is scary. When I’ve encountered this the problem is either (a) incredible amounts of disk I/O going on, or (b) filesystem corruption. Since (a) is unlikely (you’d be noticing your system being nearly locked up), have you run Disk Utility and verified your disk lately?
—Jens |
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