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

From: Reed, Judith (jreed_at_navisite.com)
Date: 08/18/04

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    Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:48:40 -0400
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

    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.

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