misc/88463: 'devfs rule add' before 'devfs ruleset' kills devfs.
trasz <
trasz at pin.if.uz.zgora.pl
Thu Nov 3 10:20:16 PST 2005
>Number: 88463
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: 'devfs rule add' before 'devfs ruleset' kills devfs.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 03 18:20:14 GMT 2005
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: trasz
>Release: 6.0-rc1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD traszkan.ds7 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Sat Oct 29 21:42:46 CEST 2005 trasz at traszkan.ds7:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRASHCAN i386
>Description:
doing 'devfs rule add <whatever>' before 'devfs ruleset <number>' makes
all the dev-related processes - and some ordinary ones like ps(1) - sleep
endlessly on 'devfs rule lock'. clean reboot of the system is impossible
after that.
note that this occurs only if you don't have any ruleset enabled - that
is, no 'devfs_system_ruleset=something' in /etc/rc.conf.
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