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From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
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Subject: Re: -current kernel hangs?
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, David Wolfskill wrote:

> >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:48:10 -1000 (HST)
> >From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
>
> >	With a July 18, 2001 sources, it seems like the kernel hands at
> >the entropy harvesting stage.... ctrl-t shows:
>
> >load : 098 cmd : sycctl  51 [running] 4.51u 210.37s 0% 172k
>
> >        It will just sit there forever until ctrl-c is hit.  Anyone knows
> >what's wrong?  Thanks.
>
> This was discussed (to some extent) aboust a week & a half ago in -current.
> It seems (pointed out by Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>)
> that -- for some of us, at least -- "sysctl -a" (used in the entropy
> harvesting by /etc/rc -- fails to terminate.
>
> Also (again, for me) "sysctl -N -a" outputs a (non-terminating) stream of
>
> 	net.inet.accf.373
>
> lines using my (slightly customized) kernel, but with GENERIC, it exhibits
> similar behavior, but outputs a stream of
>
> 	net.inet.accf.372
>
> lines.
>
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not sufficiently clueful to figure out how the notion
> of what sysctls exist on the system could get so confused as to do that.
>
> Given the behavior, though, my current (wild) guess is that some code is
> stomping on a data structure in a somewhat configuration-dependent way.
>
> Clues would be quite welcome....

	Interesting... I just didn't see anyone mention it this week so I
thought it was fixed already but is there a work around this so ctrl-c
doesn't have to be hit on each reboot?


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