From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Lawrence Walton <lawrence@the-penguin.otak.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DEVFS broken?
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:12:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C47F528.3C39E31@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020117171229.GA1084@the-penguin.otak.com>
Lawrence Walton wrote:
>
> I am not sure how to debug this but it apears that
> in 2.5.3-pre1 and in 2.5.2-dj1 DEVFS is not working.
> It started by terminals hanging and not being able to
> shutdown.
> I went to /dev/ and did a ls, it compleatly hangs that
> terminal and I cannot kill ls.
> I have the devfsd version from debian 1.3.21 .
I run into that inability to shutdown occationally.
There is an easy fix though:
kill -SIGUSR1 1
This is the documented way of dealing with a
remounted /dev. shutdown, init, telinit
work normally after that. Unless there
are other errors of course.
Helge Hafting
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-18 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-17 17:12 DEVFS broken? Lawrence Walton
2002-01-17 19:04 ` Dan Chen
2002-01-20 20:04 ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-21 0:00 ` Dan Chen
2002-01-21 0:45 ` Dan Chen
[not found] ` <200201210050.g0L0oQm17429@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
2002-01-21 17:38 ` Dan Chen
2002-01-18 10:12 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
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