FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:37:56 -0500
Jason Hellenthal <jhell at DataIX.net> wrote:

> 
> Just because of what I read already is pretty terse I am top-posting for
> a reason.
> 
> $ su -
> # /etc/rc.d/devd stop
> # pgrep -l devd 	(This should show nothing if so kill the results)

Done:
root at kg-v2# /etc/rc.d/devd stop
devd not running?
root at kg-v2# pgrep -l devd
root at kg-v2# 

> # /sbin/devd -D -d	(Paste the results)

The first output was longer than my scrollback buffer, so I tried it one more time.
Now it just "hangs" here:
root at kg-v2# /sbin/devd -D -d
Parsing /etc/devd.conf
setting scsi-controller-regex=(aac|adv|adw|aha|ahb|ahc|ahd|aic|amd|amr|asr|bt|ciss|ct|dpt|esp|ida|iir|ips|isp|mlx|mly|mpt|ncr|ncv|nsp|stg|sym|trm|wds)[0-9]+
Parsing files in /etc/devd
Parsing /etc/devd/asus.conf
Parsing /etc/devd/uath.conf
Parsing /etc/devd/usb.conf
Parsing files in /usr/local/etc/devd
Parsing /usr/local/etc/devd/webcamd.conf

Strange.
I tried deinstalling webcamd (yes, a shot in the dark, I know), but it didn't help:

root at kg-v2# pkg_deinstall webcamd-3.2.0.2
--->  Deinstalling 'webcamd-3.2.0.2'
==> You should manually remove the "webcamd" user. 
[Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 954 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done]
root at kg-v2# pgrep -l devd
root at kg-v2# /sbin/devd -D -d
Parsing /etc/devd.conf
setting scsi-controller-regex=(aac|adv|adw|aha|ahb|ahc|ahd|aic|amd|amr|asr|bt|ciss|ct|dpt|esp|ida|iir|ips|isp|mlx|mly|mpt|ncr|ncv|nsp|stg|sym|trm|wds)[0-9]+
Parsing files in /etc/devd
Parsing /etc/devd/asus.conf
Parsing /etc/devd/uath.conf
Parsing /etc/devd/usb.conf
Parsing files in /usr/local/etc/devd
-- 
Torfinn