FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

[Sergey Kandaurov]

On 3 February 2012 09:45, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 02/02/2012 21:34, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Actually all the OP needs to do is to make sure the src tree is up to
> date and run mergemaster. I MFC'ed the relevant changes to rc.d/devd
> last April.

Hmm.. I just double-checked.
Somehow cvsweb.cgi failed to show that this change is merged in 1.11.2.2.
Sorry for noise.

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