Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:23:19 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient SYNCDHCP messiness Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202221701490.80831@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <1329949733.1063.6.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202220923030.77675@wonkity.com> <1329938748.21804.8.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202221348360.79830@wonkity.com> <1329949733.1063.6.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: > First, let me correct myself: I *am* seeing exactly this glitch, I just > hadn't noticed it until a few minutes ago when I rebooted and looked > much more closely. > > Devd sees the link-up event because it sees all the events that happened > before it started (for some definition of "all"; there's probably some > reasonable list-length or buffer size limit somewhere). I rebooted to > test my vague memory on this... boot into single-user mode and manually > run /sbin/devd -D and you'll see it processing the buffered events > before daemonizing. For some reason I had to mount / writeable before > running devd in single-user or it failed. > > I now suspect (but haven't tested to confirm) that this message may be a > side effect of r226345 which replaced some one-off pidfile logic in > rc.d/dhclient with use of the standard rc_pid scheme, which is what is > doing the whining. I think the old one-off code to deal with the > pidfile avoided whining in the 'quietstart' case. Has r226345 been MFCed to 8-stable? I only see it in head.
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