Re: rc(8) regression. What's the story?

Am 16.08.2009 um 23:20 schrieb Marcel Moolenaar:

> All,
>
> A few of my machines still can't boot successfully to multi-user:
>
> 	...
> Trying to mount root from ufs:da0p3
> Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point kickstart.
> /dev/da0p3: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
> /dev/da0p3: clean, 8843098 free (98130 frags, 1093121 blocks, 0.6%  
> fragmentation)
> WARNING: ZFS is considered to be an experimental feature in FreeBSD.
> ZFS filesystem version 13
> ZFS storage pool version 13
> bge0: link state changed to DOWN
> Starting Network: lo0 bge0.

At this point, /etc/rc.d/netif is finished.

> bge1: link state changed to DOWN
> Mounting NFS file systems:mount_nfs: nfs: hostname nor servname  
> provided, or not known
> .
> bge0: link state changed to UP

Only now is the interface capable of forwarding packets.

> Setting date via ntp.
> Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known
> 16 Aug 14:05:51 ntpdate[644]: can't find host time.lan.xcllnt.net

Is this a timeout, or did netif not configure all the interfaces/routes?

>
> 16 Aug 14:05:51 ntpdate[644]: no servers can be used, exiting
> rpc.umntall: nfs: MOUNTPROG: RPC: Unknown host
> Setting NIS domain: xcllnt.
> Recovering vi editor sessions:.
> Mounting late file systems:mount_nfs: nfs: hostname nor servname  
> provided, or not known
> .
> Mounting /etc/fstab filesystems failed,  startup aborted
> ERROR: ABORTING BOOT (sending SIGTERM to parent)!
> Aug 16 14:05:53 hob init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally,  
> going to single user mode
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
>
>
> This is an obvious regression and I don't see that this is being
> addressed. Am I mistaken?

Maybe not everyone is seeing this?  I certainly have no problems  
bringing up interfaces in time for ntpdate to work, or nfs mounts to  
succeed.


Stefan

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