Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:04:11 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Rohit Grover <rgrover1@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hald spins in a poll/read loop against /dev/usb with CURRENT Message-ID: <1253916251.1274.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <426bed110909251459p50ca5564mee568e14bd26d8cd@mail.gmail.com> References: <426bed110909250623j44c25ba8o97ded8393f5297a9@mail.gmail.com> <20090925153212.67247375@ernst.jennejohn.org> <426bed110909251459p50ca5564mee568e14bd26d8cd@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 05:59 +0800, Rohit Grover wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Gary Jennejohn
> <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:23:12 +0800
> > Rohit Grover <rgrover1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hald spins endlessly on my CURRENT. I have the following from truss:
> >>
> >> open("/dev/usb",O_RDONLY,00) =3D 12 (0xc)
> >> ...
> >> ...
> >> poll({4/POLLIN 8/POLLIN 10/POLLIN|POLLPRI 15/POLLIN 89/POLLIN 6/POLLIN
> >> 9/POLLIN 88/POLLIN 7/POLLIN 12/POLLIN},10,161) =3D 1 (0x1)
> >> gettimeofday({1253883730.961100 },0x0) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> read(12,0xbfbfe56c,384) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> gettimeofday({1253883730.961158 },0x0) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> poll({4/POLLIN 8/POLLIN 10/POLLIN|POLLPRI 15/POLLIN 89/POLLIN 6/POLLIN
> >> 9/POLLIN 88/POLLIN 7/POLLIN 12/POLLIN},10,161) =3D 1 (0x1)
> >> gettimeofday({1253883730.961228 },0x0) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> read(12,0xbfbfe56c,384) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> gettimeofday({1253883730.961286 },0x0) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> poll({4/POLLIN 8/POLLIN 10/POLLIN|POLLPRI 15/POLLIN 89/POLLIN 6/POLLIN
> >> 9/POLLIN 88/POLLIN 7/POLLIN 12/POLLIN},10,161) =3D 1 (0x1)
> >> gettimeofday({1253883730.961357 },0x0) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> read(12,0xbfbfe56c,384) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> gettimeofday({1253883730.961415 },0x0) =3D 0 (0x0)
> >> ...
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Why is /dev/usb responding to poll() when there is no data to be read?
> >>
> >> thanks.
> >>
> >
> > /dev/usb is a directory on my 9-CURRENT machine, not a device file.
> >
> > Did you install hald recently, e.g. after updating you kernel? I'm pre=
tty sure that
> > hald depends on kernel sources and often requires a fresh installation.
>=20
> I've rebuilt hald (hal-0.5.11_26) after checking out 8/stable under
> /usr/src/sys. Same problem. A spin loop of poll/read, with /dev/usb
> responding to poll() but not to read().
Insufficient. You need to be running on a world/kernel which are in
sync with each other. You also need to make sure the libusb port is no
longer installed, and that you have run "make delete-old" after the
upgrade. Then rebuild hal.
Joe
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