From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:46:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184024798.14102.3.camel@blackwidow.nbk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070709232607.GA7211@brego.pewamo.office>
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:26 -0400, Michael George wrote:
> I got home from work today to find that hald-addon-storage was stuck on
> disk I/O and holding the load at 1 or higher. I tried restarting hald
> in /etc/init.d, but that just caused hald-probe-storage to stick,
> driving the load to 2.
>
> I've never had this happen before and I haven't migrated to a new kernel
> or anything lately...
>
> Is there any way to fix that other than reboot?
What state is the process in? If it's in an "Uninterruptible sleep" (D)
mode then it won't die/continue until it gets whatever I/O it's
expecting. If it doesn't (e.g. there's something wrong with the device
it's held on to) then you'll probably have to reboot.
http://linuxgazette.net/issue83/tag/6.html
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-09 23:26 [gentoo-user] hald is stuck Michael George
2007-07-09 23:46 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2007-07-10 0:47 ` Michael George
2007-07-10 15:33 ` Alessandro del Gallo
2007-07-13 10:02 ` Michael George
2007-07-17 23:05 ` Michael George
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