From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: orders@nodivisions.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: devfsd stuck in D state
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:45:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040831214554.03fe70e7.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41353913.70102@nodivisions.com>
Anthony DiSante <orders@nodivisions.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
Probably not.
Please do
dmesg -c
echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger
dmesg -s 1000000 > foo
then send us foo. Then reboot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-01 4:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-01 2:50 Anthony DiSante
2004-09-01 2:56 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 3:05 ` Anthony DiSante
2004-09-01 4:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-09-01 5:03 ` Anthony DiSante
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