stopping amd causes a freeze

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 22/07/2013 20:05, Artem Belevich wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de>wrote:
> 
>> Occasionally stopping amd freezes my system. It's a rare occurrence,
>> and I haven't found a reliable way to reproduce it.
>>
>> It's also a real freeze, so there's no way to get into the debugger
>> or grab a core dump. I only can perform the 4 seconds hard shutdown to
>> revive the system.
>>
>> I run amd through sysutils/automounter, which is a scripting solution
>> that generates an amd.map file based on encountered devices and devd
>> events. The SIGHUP it sends to amd to tell it the map file was updated
>> does not cause problems, only a SIGKILL may cause the freeze.
>>
>> Nothing was mounted (by amd) during the last freeze.
>>
>>
> ...
> 
> 
>> I don't see any angle to tackle this, but I'm throwing it out here
>> any way, in the hopes that someone actually has an idea how to approach
>> the issue.
>>
> 
> Don't use KILL or make sure that nobody tries to use amd mountpoints until
> new instance starts. Manually unmounting them before killing amd may help.
> Why not let amd do it itself with "/etc/rc.d/amd stop" ?

That was a typo, I'm using SIGTERM. Sorry about that.

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