FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Sat Feb 4 15:52:15 UTC 2012


More data:
root at kg-v2# service devd status
devd is not running.
root at kg-v2# service devd start
Starting devd.
devd: devd already running, pid: 808
/etc/rc.d/devd: WARNING: failed to start devd
root at kg-v2# rm /var/run/devd.pid
root at kg-v2# service devd start
Starting devd.
root at kg-v2# service devd status
devd is running as pid 30165.
root at kg-v2# service devd stop
Stopping devd.
root at kg-v2# service devd status
devd is not running.
root at kg-v2# ll /var/run/devd.pid
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  5 Feb  4 16:45 /var/run/devd.pid
root at kg-v2# service devd start
Starting devd.
root at kg-v2# service devd status
devd is running as pid 30206.

Let me try to install the webcamd port again... done.
Now testing again:
root at kg-v2# service devd status
devd is running as pid 30206.
root at kg-v2# service devd stop
Stopping devd.
root at kg-v2# ll /var/run/devd.pid
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  5 Feb  4 16:48 /var/run/devd.pid
root at kg-v2# service devd status
devd is not running.
root at kg-v2# service devd start
Starting devd.
root at kg-v2# service devd status
devd is running as pid 35551.

Not really sure what's going on here.
-- 
Torfinn



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