FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:45:26 -0800
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Strange, my machine was rebuilt later than that (yes, I always run mergemaster as part of the the "make world"):
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# head -3 /etc/rc.subr
# $NetBSD: rc.subr,v 1.67 2006/10/07 11:25:15 elad Exp $
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.88.2.16 2011/04/29 20:31:52 dougb Exp $
#
root at kg-v7# head -3 /etc/rc.d/devd
#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/devd,v 1.11.2.2 2011/04/29 20:31:52 dougb Exp $

Another machine which also has the same problem:
root at kg-v2# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-v2.kg4.no 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Sat Jul 16 02:07:14 CEST 2011     root at kg-v2.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
root at kg-v2# head -3 /etc/rc.subr
# $NetBSD: rc.subr,v 1.67 2006/10/07 11:25:15 elad Exp $
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.88.2.17 2011/07/03 16:32:03 jilles Exp $
#
root at kg-v2# head -3 /etc/rc.d/devd
#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/devd,v 1.11.2.2 2011/04/29 20:31:52 dougb Exp $

Is that the versions you are referring to?

I have a machine with world built in December, it seems to have the same versions of the files:
(note: i have not tried restarting devd on that machine)
root at kg-vm# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-vm.kg4.no 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4: Sat Dec 17 17:47:43 CET 2011     root at kg-vm.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
root at kg-vm# head -3 /etc/rc.subr
# $NetBSD: rc.subr,v 1.67 2006/10/07 11:25:15 elad Exp $
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.subr,v 1.88.2.17 2011/07/03 16:32:03 jilles Exp $
#
root at kg-vm# head -3 /etc/rc.d/devd
#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/rc.d/devd,v 1.11.2.2 2011/04/29 20:31:52 dougb Exp $

-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen