on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:34:57AM -0500, Lista de NetBSD Users wrote:
> This time I have check the keyboard of the box and
> I see the LED *scroll lock* is ON. I dont know why
> the led is on.

This also happened with me.
See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2002/05/31/0006.html

ps alx might be handy, as it would show the wchan syslog was on.

Have you got a line in /etc/syslog.conf that logs to /dev/console or any
other tty device directly? If so, have you tried removing it?