SUMMARY: lsof reports "can't read file struct from ...."

From: Reed, Judith <jreed_at_navisite.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:48:40 -0400

Thanks to Eric Sisson and Kazuro Furukawa, who pointed out that the
problem was due to an lsof version that may have been built on a diff.
version of the OS, and recommended rebuilding lsof on the system. I did
this, and it resolved the issue.

Regards;

Judith Reed

> -----Original Message-----
>
> On an es40 running T64 v5.1a we found an app was having problems with
> threads hanging rather than closing. Investigation found that if you
run
> "lsof" with no options you get close to 500 copies of a msg of the
form:

> vold 23 root 1 can't read file struct from
0xc00000ee0026e932

> The process owners vary, but the msgs seem to almost always be
> associated with things like /dev/console, /dev/zero, etc.
Received on Wed Aug 18 2004 - 12:50:31 NZST

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