Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

2007-07-17 Thread Michael George
Bah! It's happened again to my system. It was fine this morning when I left for work, but now hald-addon-storage is stuck waiting on Disk IO (state of D). I looked in the log and the only thing I noticed was that the ide-cd system received a lost interrupt and timed out errors on both devices (h

Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

2007-07-13 Thread Michael George
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0200, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > > I had the same problem: > > hald was sucking 99% cpu, removables devices didn't work > and launching hald from terminal with the option "--daemon=no > --verbose=yes" i discovered it was on a infinite loop echo-ing > someth

Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

2007-07-10 Thread Alessandro del Gallo
Michael George ha scritto: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 06:46:38PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:26 -0400, Michael George wrote: What state is the process in? If it's in an "Uninterruptible sleep" (D) mode then it won't die/continue until it gets whatever I/O it's expecting.

Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

2007-07-09 Thread Michael George
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 06:46:38PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:26 -0400, Michael George wrote: > > What state is the process in? If it's in an "Uninterruptible sleep" (D) > mode then it won't die/continue until it gets whatever I/O it's > expecting. If it doesn't (e.g

Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

2007-07-09 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:26 -0400, Michael George wrote: > I got home from work today to find that hald-addon-storage was stuck on > disk I/O and holding the load at 1 or higher. I tried restarting hald > in /etc/init.d, but that just caused hald-probe-storage to stick, > driving the load to 2. >

[gentoo-user] hald is stuck

2007-07-09 Thread Michael George
I got home from work today to find that hald-addon-storage was stuck on disk I/O and holding the load at 1 or higher. I tried restarting hald in /etc/init.d, but that just caused hald-probe-storage to stick, driving the load to 2. I've never had this happen before and I haven't migrated to a new