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Date:      Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:54:21 +0000 (WET)
From:      Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Sysinstall - Will not die
Message-ID:  <20060709164615.Y13293@cgate.yournetplus.com>

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If this has been discussed before, please point it out. I've done some 
searching and can not quite come up with the solution other than to reboot 
the server. I'm hoping a reboot can be avoided.

I recently attempted to run sysinstall to install something that was not 
listed in the ports collection. Sysinstall is still running in the back 
ground as a result of my ssh session getting terminated. Now, I can not 
kill sysinstall. I found some things on the web that pointed out there may 
be a parent that is keeping the child thread alive. That parent has been 
killed off and I still can not kill sysinstall.

I am noticing some things in the messages log that may be as a direct 
result of sysinstall still running. I am getting the following two lines 
logged all the time:

     Jul  9 16:51:16 cgate kernel: acd0: req=0xc3833640 TEST_UNIT_READY
     semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !!
     Jul  9 16:51:17 cgate kernel: acd0: req=0xc38324b0 SETFEATURES SET
     TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !!

I know acd0 has something to do with the cdrom drive. That is the only 
thing being complained about within the logs as far as hardware goes. No 
other file systems are having issues.

Can someone shed some light on what is going on?

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