Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:50:59 -0400 | From | Anthony DiSante <> | Subject | devfsd stuck in D state |
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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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