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Date:      Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:03:16 +0200
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        Danilo Egea <daniloegea@yahoo.com.br>,  "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sysctl: Cannot allocate memory after r267961
Message-ID:  <53AE3E84.5030106@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <53AE3989.9020000@selasky.org>
References:  <1403895102.10070.YahooMailNeo@web162001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <53AE3989.9020000@selasky.org>

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On 06/28/14 05:42, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 06/27/14 20:51, Danilo Egea wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I've just updated my system (current) and now I'm getting this message:
>> [danilo src$] uname -a
>> uname: sysctl: Cannot allocate memory
>>
>>
>> Some programs are failing due this, like portmaster and chromium.
>>
>> This commit (r267961) has a lot of changes in the sysctl subsystem.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Sorry about the breakage. There appears to be some special case for
> read-only MIB SYSCTL strings which was ending up in an error code that's
> not so well documented. Sorry that it is not possible for me to test
> absolutely everything.
>
> Testing done from my side:
>
> - Several universe builds
> - Sysctl functionality has been verified and tested.
>
> I'm going to pull in the change again with the fix for "uname". If there
> are more problems popping up I need your help to test this patch.
>
> Thanks for your patience!
>
> --HPS

Fixed in:

r267992

--HPS



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