I am running 2.6.32 and am faced by exactly this problem on a machine I cannot just reboot:
% ps aux | egrep -c '\<D\>.+vgdisplay' 37821 lsof or strace on existing processes don't show anything, but strace on a new vgdisplay process shows that it blocks on opening /dev/cdrom, which seems to be defective. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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