Hi,

after a while running my system load goes up by 3 apparently caused by
hald (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/hal/) locking up together with
[scsi_eh_1] and [usb-storage].

The activity LED of my USB 6in1 card reader flashes nervously and I
obtained the following task state using magic SysRQ:

hald          D 0000268216b1cdba     0  7996   3415                     (NOTLB)
000001002a31fc78 0000000000000006 0000007300000000 000001000509c4f0
       000000000000244d 000001003fe402b0 000001000509c808 ffffffff80279860
       000001003ffdcd90 ffffffff802d7d6d
Call Trace:<ffffffff80279860>{scsi_done+0} <ffffffff802d7d6d>{.text.lock.scsiglue+5}
       <ffffffff8038f74a>{wait_for_completion+154} <ffffffff8012e370>{default_wake_function+0}
       <ffffffff8012e370>{default_wake_function+0} <ffffffff8027d8e3>{scsi_wait_req+99}
       <ffffffff8026d979>{ide_diag_taskfile+201} <ffffffff80170c50>{invalidate_bh_lru+0}
       <ffffffff8027aa50>{ioctl_internal_command+112} <ffffffff8027b1ef>{scsi_ioctl+751}
       <ffffffff8028e8d5>{sd_media_changed+69} <ffffffff80176459>{check_disk_change+41}
       <ffffffff8028e527>{sd_open+215} <ffffffff80176839>{do_open+281}
       <ffffffff801761c7>{bdget+263} <ffffffff80176cdf>{blkdev_open+47}
       <ffffffff8016dac6>{dentry_open+246} <ffffffff8016dc1e>{filp_open+62}
       <ffffffff80182c86>{sys_poll+806} <ffffffff8017bb55>{getname+149}
       <ffffffff80181f30>{__pollwait+0} <ffffffff8016de7c>{sys_open+76}
       <ffffffff8010e562>{system_call+126}

Anyone else seeing this problem?

Tom

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