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From: Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-ports@tharned.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: hal-0.5.11_26
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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Nikolay Tychina wrote:

> i updated to hal-0.5.11_26 and now i'm experiencing some problems wth hald.
> Some time after starting it stops working. lshal gives no response, devices
> aren't detected anymore.
> I can't restart hal, stop it or kill:
> lettuce# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald forcestop
> Stopping hald.
> Waiting for PIDS: 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240,
> [snip]
> 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240, 1240 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...
>
> I hadn't have this problem with earlier versions until i updated hal.
> Help me to solve it, please.
>

This sounds like the same problem I reported last month on 
freebsd-current@: see thread at 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-August/010406.html

Sam Leffler indicated that this is a known problem, but the person working 
on it was away.  It does make hald pretty much unusable.

-- 
Greg Rivers