FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:34:10 +0300
Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

It looks like it (or almost the same) is here already:
root at kg-v2# more /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 $
#

# PROVIDE: devd
# REQUIRE: netif network_ipv6
# BEFORE: NETWORKING mountcritremote
# KEYWORD: nojail shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name="devd"
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
command="/sbin/${name}"

start_precmd=${name}_prestart
stop_precmd=find_pidfile

find_pidfile()
{
        if get_pidfile_from_conf pid-file /etc/devd.conf; then
                pidfile="$_pidfile_from_conf"
        else
                pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
        fi
}

devd_prestart ()
{
        find_pidfile

        # If devd is disabled, turn it off in the kernel to avoid memory leaks.
        if ! checkyesno ${rcvar}; then
            $SYSCTL hw.bus.devctl_disable=1
        fi
}

load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"

HTH
-- 
Torfinn