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Subjectdevfsd stuck in D state
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/


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