From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 10 18:59:28 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 29A5F16A4DE for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:59:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from admin.mwci.net (corp.yournetplus.com [162.42.148.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA30743D68 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:59:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from d.hill@yournetplus.com) Received: from corp.yournetplus.com ([162.42.148.121] verified) by admin.mwci.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 19988891; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:59:25 +0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:59:24 +0000 (WET) From: Duane Hill To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <44zmfhgv2b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: <20060710185546.Q58609@cgate.yournetplus.com> References: <20060709164615.Y13293@cgate.yournetplus.com> <44zmfhgv2b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:59:28 -0000 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 -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled electrons."