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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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Albert W. Hopkins

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09 23:52 UTC|newest]

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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