Sysinstall - Will not die

[Duane Hill]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Duane Hill <d.hill at yournetplus.com> 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

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