Comment 4 for bug 288173

Someone (Keybuk) recommended I kill off udevadm because it shouldn't still be running. I can't get a flash reader to work; everything but the /dev entry shows up when I plug it in (dmesg, /sys/block/sdc/); seems to be the same issue.

bluefox@icebox:~$ ps -e|grep ud
 3003 ? 00:00:01 udevd
 3009 ? 00:00:00 udevadm
15251 ? 00:04:15 pulseaudio
bluefox@icebox:~$ sudo kill 3009
bluefox@icebox:~$ ps -e|grep ud
 3003 ? 00:00:01 udevd
15251 ? 00:04:15 pulseaudio
bluefox@icebox:~$ uptime
 11:32:39 up 1 day, 1:05, 5 users, load average: 3.97, 3.60, 3.26