From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 19:26:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C06106564A for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:26:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from woodbine.london.02.net (woodbine.london.02.net [87.194.255.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019DA8FC12 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muji2.config (87.194.237.233) by woodbine.london.02.net (8.5.140) id 4EEB647400C633C3 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:26:04 +0000 Message-ID: <4F26EECC.2060000@onetel.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:26:04 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100924 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201201301241390259.009FB9C0@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <201201301241390259.009FB9C0@sentry.24cl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config 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, 30 Jan 2012 19:26:06 -0000 On 30/01/2012 17:41, Mike. wrote: > I installed 9.0 on my test ThinkPad. During the boot-up process, I see > the following message after a pause in the boot-up process: > > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for > xpt_config > > > A quick spin through google showed the message occurred in older > versions of FreeBSD, though I did not see it when I installed 7.x and > 8.x on the Thinkpad. I didn't see any resolutions to the problem. > > Is the message FreeBSD's way of telling me there is something wrong > with the ThinkPad? Or is it a problem with FreeBSD? I don't know > where to start looking for the cause of the message, as I do not know > what the message is trying to tell me. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136327 includes a workaround, hopefully it will work for you: disable firewire (IEEE 1394) in BIOS. rebuild kernel with device sbp disabled and install it. reboot if it works re-enable firewire in BIOS. The reason you didn't see it in some versions is because GENERIC was shipped with sbp disabled (I think). Someone is/was working on a fix. Chris