FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 3 February 2012 00:22, Torfinn Ingolfsen
<torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought this bug was fixed back in 2009?
> root at kg-v7# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-v7.kg4.no 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #7: Sat Jul  9 23:00:31 CEST 2011     root at kg-v7.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> root at kg-v7#
> root at kg-v7# service devd status
> devd is running as pid 555.
> root at kg-v7# service devd restart
> Stopping devd.
> Starting devd.
> devd: devd already running, pid: 555
> /etc/rc.d/devd: WARNING: failed to start devd
> root at kg-v7# service devd status
> devd is not running.
>
> What gives?

Please apply this patch and report how it goes for you.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/rc.d/devd.diff?r1=1.12;r2=1.13

This is not in 8-STABLE yet.

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