FreeBSD Port: hal-0.5.11_26

[Nikolay Tychina]

2009/9/12 Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> If hald is in a state where it won't respond to a kill -9 then you have
> no alternative but to hit the big red button and force your machine to
> reboot in order to get rid of it.  hald shouldn't ever get into that state
> -- it used to happen to programs using resources on a NFS drive if the NFS
> server went away suddenly, and you'ld see lots of 'D's in the STAT column
> of ps(1}'s -auxwww output. That is about the only way to achieve that effect
> I know of, and it shouldn't affect a system daemon like hald though.
>


Here's ps output:
> ps auxww | grep hal
haldaemon   1240  0,0  0,2  6812  4012  ??  Ds   12:17     0:15,38
/usr/local/sbin/hald
root        1244  0,0  0,1  5776  2140  ??  I    12:17     0:00,04
hald-runner
root        1252  0,0  0,1  5600  1732  ??  I    12:17     0:00,01
hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/psm0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)
root        1258  0,0  0,1  5600  1732  ??  I    12:17     0:00,01
hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/ums0 (hald-addon-mouse-sy)
root        1261  0,0  0,1  3652  1432  ??  S    12:17     0:02,30
hald-addon-storage: /dev/cd0 (hald-addon-storage)
nicholas    1471  0,0  0,2  8084  3692  ??  S    12:20     0:00,64
/usr/local/libexec/gvfs-hal-volume-monitor
root        2513  0,0  0,1  3652  1292  ??  DE   15:46     0:00,21
hald-probe-scsi: /dev/da1 (hald-probe-scsi)
root        2514  0,0  0,1  3652  1240  ??  I    15:46     0:00,01
/usr/local/libexec/hald-addon-storage
nicholas    3735  0,0  0,1  3340  1152  p1  S+   17:31     0:00,00 grep hal

I noticed, if i plug/unplug my mobile phone (it works as flash drive) for
several times, usb can brake. I.e. when i plug phone again nothing is being
shown in dmesg. Could usb cause this hald state?