From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 11: 1:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oxygen.americanisp.net (oxygen.americanisp.net [208.244.174.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E40AC37B663 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:01:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10999 invoked by uid 7860); 15 Nov 2000 20:00:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Nov 2000 20:00:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:00:10 -0700 (MST) From: Peter To: Subject: sysisntall and kill Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was trying to update some things on my system, so I did /stand/sysinstall ; everything worked fine [I did this in xterm under X, I also had to su to root]. I went to the installation part of it where it asks from where to isntall, so I chose CD my CD started spinning, stopped and my system froze for about 30 seconds [I couldn't even hit ctrl+alt+F# key to switch] it unfroze for like 10 seconds, I went to real root under another console. Froze again, something about trying to find device then device dissapeared. Then unfroze. In this time I tried killing sysinstall with kill ### and kill -9 ###, none of those would kill sysinstall [it was still under ps and running, randomly freezing my system] so I did shutdown now [to single user mode] tried killing sysinstall from there....still no go, so I did shutdown -r now. It tried syncing the disks [gave up I guess] and rebooted, on reboot it had to run fsck because disks were not properly dismounted... [I could not mount/umount the cdrom -device was busy [did not try umount -f]] Question: Why tf was I not able to kill sysinstall? I tried like 10 times using kill -9 etc. no go, single user mode didn't kill it, only reboot killed it, and it would keep freezing my whole pc up for about 20-30 seconds at a time trying to find my disk [the cd would spin] then error message of device disappeared. this is: FBSD 4.1.1-Stable [cd-rom is for 4.0-Release] Could that be it? TY **Random Fortune for this instance of pine** The primary cause of failure in electrical appliances is an expired warranty. Often, you can get an appliance running again simply by changing the warranty expiration date with a 15/64-inch felt-tipped marker. -- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw" --- www.nul.cjb.net --- The Power to Crash! --- www.FreeBSD.org --- The Power to Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message