udevadm error sending message: Connection refused - messages while reloading udev rules.

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Issue

  • Unable to reload udevd .
  • Unable to enable debug logging for udev.

    # udevadm control --log-priority=debug
    error sending message: Connection refused
    udevadm[2825]: error sending message: Connection refused
    
  • Reloading udevd to add/implement the newly configured udev rules, we get

    # udevadm control --reload-rules
    error sending message: Connection refused
    udevadm[38139]: error sending message: Connection refused
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
    • udev

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