Screwed up USB
Hello gurus,
I've got a linux-2.6 i686 sarge machine running udev, dbus-1, and hal. A
(l)user has just pulled a usb drive out before waiting for it to finish
transfering data.
*Is* it possible to recover without rebooting the machine?
Here's what I've tried so far, which may have only made the situation worse:
I took down dbus-1 and hal w/ invoke-rc.d dbus-1 stop
I killed all processes that have an open file descriptor to the directory the
flash drive was mounted on using lsof | grep <mount-point>
I tried to unmount the disk, but could not, so I wound up using pumount -l.
Maybe that was a mistake...
Tried to kill -HUP udevd, pretty sure that was a mistake.
And now I'm out of options except to try randomly removing kernel modules or
reboot. The user would rather I not reboot as the machine is running a model
that's been number-crunching for days. The machine seems fine except that usb
removable media doesn't seem to work and the load level is higher than normal.
Michael Peek
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