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* devfsd stuck in D state
@ 2004-09-01  2:50 Anthony DiSante
  2004-09-01  2:56 ` Lee Revell
  2004-09-01  4:45 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Anthony DiSante @ 2004-09-01  2:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hello,

I'm running devfs v1.22 on this Gentoo system:


Linux soma 2.6.3 #8 Thu Jun 10 00:17:31 EDT 2004 i686 Pentium III 
(Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


...and I just unplugged my USB memory-stick reader.  That apparently caused 
devfsd to go into "D" state (uninterruptible sleep, right?):


root       118  0.0  0.1  1832  924 ?        D    Aug27   0:01 /sbin/devfsd /dev


...and it won't come back.  CPU is idle, but load is:


load average: 52.90, 51.41, 49.48


...and now some weird stuff is happening, for example man doesn't work, and 
ps works but doesn't return.  (top works, vmstat works...)

killall -HUP devfsd doesn't do anything.

Is it possible to fix this without rebooting?

Thanks,
Anthony DiSante
http://nodivisions.com/


PS - sorry about that misdirected "subscribe" email.

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