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Subject: Re: Sysinstall - Will not die
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Duane Hill <d.hill@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?