> I left a build of a bunch of libraries and programs running over night. This
> morning I find that the build has stalled, with a cc waiting on disk I/O
> according to 'ps aux'. Looking at the rest of the ps output, there was
> a cron job run an hour after cc that also stalled.
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> Anything I can do to resolve this?

most likely, the disk driver missed posting completion for a given
buffer (for whatever reason; driver goofup, missed interrupt, etc.).

You're not going to be able to get rid of those processes until you
reboot.

What kind of machine was this on?  Noname?  The 'ncr' SCSI driver is
known to be bug-ridden, and filled with timing problems, but that's
not much consolation for you.  8-)


chris