Kudzu is dead, causes my system to hang.

[Bill Nottingham]

Dan Thurman (dant at cdkkt.com) said: 
> Here is the last few lines after running strace /sbin/kudzu:
> 
> close(6)                                = 0
> open("/proc/ide/hdb/geometry", O_RDONLY) = 6
> read(6, "physical     0/0/0\nlogical      "..., 255) = 41
> close(6)                                = 0
> open("/proc/ide/hda/driver", O_RDONLY)  = 6
> read(6, "ide-disk version 1.18\n", 50)  = 22
> close(6)                                = 0
> open("/proc/ide/hda/media", O_RDONLY)   = 6
> read(6, "disk\n", 50)                   = 5
> close(6)                                = 0
> open("/proc/ide/hda/model", O_RDONLY)   = 6
> read(6, "Maxtor 6L200P0\n", 50)         = 15
> close(6)                                = 0
> open("/proc/ide/hda/geometry", O_RDONLY) = 6
> read(6, "physical     16383/16/63\nlogical"..., 255) = 51
> close(6)                                = 0
> open("/proc/ide/ide0/driver", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/proc/ide/ide0/media", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> getdents(3, /* 0 entries */, 8192)      = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> readlink("/proc/self/fd/0", "/dev/pts/1", 4096) = 10
> readlink("/proc/self/fd/1", "/dev/pts/1", 4096) = 10
> readlink("/proc/self/fd/2", "/dev/pts/1", 4096) = 10
> open("/dev/console", O_RDWR)            = 3
> ioctl(3, TIOCLINUX, 0xbfb4366b)         = 6
> vm86old(0)                              = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
> access("/proc/xen", X_OK)               = 0
> open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR)               = 6
> mmap2(0x10000, 524288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED|
> MAP_FIXED, 6, 0) = 0x10000
> close(6)                                = 0
> open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR)                = 6
> mmap2(NULL, 1282, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED,
> 6, 0) = 0
> mmap2(0xa0000, 393216, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED, 6,
> 0xa0) = 0xa0000
> close(6)                                = 0
> iopl(0x3)                               = 0
> ioperm(0, 0x400, 0x1)                   = 0
> iopl(0x3)                               = 0
> ioperm(0, 0x400, 0x1)                   = 0

Is this hanging the system, or just the kudzu process?

Bill