From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 12:17:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62CB916A4E9 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:17:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE2043D72 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:17:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 6238 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2006 12:17:21 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Jul 2006 12:17:21 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 1DAC528449; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:17:19 -0400 (EDT) To: Duane Hill References: <20060709164615.Y13293@cgate.yournetplus.com> <44zmfhgv2b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20060710185546.Q58609@cgate.yournetplus.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:17:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20060710185546.Q58609@cgate.yournetplus.com> (Duane Hill's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:59:24 +0000 (WET)") Message-ID: <4464i1r968.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall - Will not die X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:17:29 -0000 Duane Hill writes: > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Duane Hill writes: >> >>> 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? >> >> What is the ps(1) output for that task? > > Sorry for not including that part: > > root 17722 0.0 0.1 2128 1456 p0- D 2Jul06 0:23.08 sysinstall Yep, stuck in an uninterruptible disk wait. I can't find that warning message in my (6-STABLE, mid-June) sources, and you didn't mention what version you were running...