From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 19 19:19:29 2005 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 C754916A41F for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:19:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775D343D45 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:19:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j8JJJKrh009684 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:19:26 -0700 Received: from [128.208.4.242] (nilakantha.cs.washington.edu [128.208.4.242]) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j8JJ19AU019691 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:01:09 -0700 Message-ID: <432F0AF5.7090609@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:01:09 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <432EE1B9.3060707@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <432EE1B9.3060707@mykitchentable.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: sysinstall Hangs When Probing Devices on 5.4 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, 19 Sep 2005 19:19:29 -0000 Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I have run the 4.x versions on this exact same hardware with no > sysinstall issues. I upgraded to 5.4 using the installation CD and > sysinstall ran fine during the install. However after installing my > system and doing a full boot, sysinstall just "hangs" at probing on > any attempt to run from the command line as any user including root. > It does not respond to either 'kill' or 'kill -9'. The only way to > get rid of the process is a reboot. Any ideas on why I'm seeing this > behavior? How can I go about troubleshooting? > > Thanks, > > Drew How long do you let it sit? Sometimes it appears as if probing devices takes approximately 4-6 minutes on my P4, so if you have slower hardware it may take longer. -Garrett