Ben Hutchings wrote:
Please note that the 'task <name>:<pid> blocked for more than <time>' messages are *symptoms* and in no way indicate a particular bug. The more people add to this bug report, the less meaningful it becomes.<snip>
Cool. What do you really want from from us use to help pin this down.
And by Monday the console was unresponsive, even to magic - sysrq. I am pretty sure the machine was not under any stress at 9:30 on Saturday. No users, and backups start after 11pm.Is it possible the some fixes have dropped out of current releases?No.
That is good to hear. How can I help here to help me to stabilise our systems?
I have reverted the kernel back to Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-17lenny1)[...] You are falling for the fallacy: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc>. Please do not discourage people from installing security updates.
I did not think I was. How can we take this forward positively? Berni