FreeBSD 8.2-stable: devd fails to restart

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:34:19 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> 
> Possibly relevant:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140462&cat=
> 
> (Using DHCP from /etc/rc.conf leaves a lock on devd.pid.  SYNCDHCP does 
> not.)
> 
> And the thread:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-October/012749.html

Yes, it seems to be that problem. Tested on my other machine, which hasn't changed since the problem was discovered:
root at kg-v7# service devd status
devd is not running.
root at kg-v7# ll /var/run/devd.pid
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  3 Jan 12 20:40 /var/run/devd.pid
root at kg-v7# lsof /var/run/devd.pid
COMMAND   PID  USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF   NODE NAME
dhclient 1075  root    5w  VREG   0,70        3 918547 /var/run/devd.pid
dhclient 1091 _dhcp    5w  VREG   0,70        3 918547 /var/run/devd.pid
root at kg-v7# 

So, if this was worked on back in 2009, why isn't fixed yet?
-- 
Torfinn