Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

[Alessandro del Gallo <delgallo@pic.es>]

Michael George ha scritto:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 06:46:38PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:26 -0400, Michael George wrote:
>>
>> 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
> 
> Yes, it was in state D.  I could see it was hald, but I don't know what
> device it was waiting on.  My 3Ware controller had no complaints, and I
> don't think hald was managing my other HDD.  There had been no removable
> disks in drives for days.
> 
> Very odd...
> 

I had the same problem:

hald was sucking 99% cpu, removables devices didn't work
and launching hald from terminal with the option "--daemon=no 
--verbose=yes" i discovered it was on a infinite loop echo-ing
something about rules so I got in /etc/udev/rules.d
and found (by probing one by one) 99-libgphoto2.rules that
was HALS's murder.

I hope it's useful for you

Alessandro
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