From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 26 09:53:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76370106567A for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 09:53:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from mail.digiware.nl (mail.digiware.nl [80.255.245.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32FC98FC18 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 09:53:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AA217529; Tue, 26 May 2009 11:53:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from mail.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yBYD3iMBBKYk; Tue, 26 May 2009 11:53:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [212.61.27.67] (opteron [212.61.27.67]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DA0174AA; Tue, 26 May 2009 11:53:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A1BBC0F.2000502@digiware.nl> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:53:19 +0200 From: Willem Jan Withagen Organization: Digiware User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicolas Blais References: <7061d9f50905230958n5fd7d434t790a964e79511d6b@mail.gmail.com> <4A1853A7.8080606@digiware.nl> <7061d9f50905231257n29d9e75ehb827ffdc9c077353@mail.gmail.com> <4A1858CE.8050803@withagen.nl> <7061d9f50905250749n1c152f0fs41f7042ac374da82@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7061d9f50905250749n1c152f0fs41f7042ac374da82@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 26 May 2009 11:21:28 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd starting before IPv6 network is up X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 09:53:25 -0000 Nicolas Blais wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Willem Jan Withagen > wrote: > > Nicolas Blais wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Willem Jan Withagen > >wrote: > > Nicolas Blais wrote: > > I migrated one of my 8-CURRENT (Thu May 21) box to IPv6 > and since then, I > get the following message at boot: > > syslogd: bind: Can't assign requested address > syslogd: bind: Can't assign requested address > syslogd: > child pid 250 exited with return code 1 > > and syslogd obviously fails to start. Apparently this > problem has been > reported before, but no actual solution other than start > syslogd from > rc.local was given. > I tried disabling the firewall and it didn't fix the problem. > > I have attached a dmesg -a with RC_DEBUG="YES" So you can run syslogd once the whole system is up and running? Because that is what the rc.local suggests. I'm not using the -s open, I've used the -A option to actually specify the addresses I want to listen on. And if you don't want to receive anything from other systems. You might also forgo the option of opening a network socket at all using -s -s. --WjW