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Why does my system hang when I run ps, w and possibly other commands?

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I don't know why, but I cannot run the or commands on my Ubuntu 10.04LTS machine. I did a trace for both, and both stopped when reading part of the same file. Here's the result of running And here's the result for The file also stopped when reading ... itself? http://pastebin.com/9qRB5eHh What is h…

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Fix for: Why does my system hang when I run ps, w and possibly other commands?

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I had that happen once when an NFS server went down. The fact that it's hung trying to read information about pid 17398, and pid 17398 is in (disk wait) state, suggests that could be the cause for you too. If you do have NFS mounts, I think the best…

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