From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 22:50:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34B0116A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:50:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A00543D1F for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:50:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2NMo5QK030546 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:50:05 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j2NMo5NV030545; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:50:05 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:50:05 GMT Message-Id: <200503232250.j2NMo5NV030545@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org From: Jonas Nagel Subject: Re: kern/72119: Detaching USB Memory Stick w/o umount causes zombie devfs node X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jonas Nagel List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:50:06 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/72119; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jonas Nagel To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.org, Ian Dowse Subject: Re: kern/72119: Detaching USB Memory Stick w/o umount causes zombie devfs node Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:44:33 +0100 I don't understand how this is supposed to be a duplicate. The issue might be similar but in my case, the OS does NOT crash. My issue lies within the devfs, where a zombie device node remains, which has to be deleted and then recreated, while in the other case it's a straight kernel panic. But you might have deeper insights into the issue within... -- Jonas Nagel