From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 17 22:51: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A8337B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5674943EF9 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 39520 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2002 05:51:00 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (66.92.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Oct 2002 05:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3DAFA144.7080004@tenebras.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:51:00 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr-fr, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: weird panic w/sysctl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I suppose this is pretty naive, and maybe I'm under some voodoo spell, but is it plausible that running sysctl in the absence of a proc fs could cause a panic? On my nifty, new Soekris Engineering SBC w/CF disk and NO_SWAPPING, if I ran w/o a proc fs I could reliably panic the machine by typing "sysctl -a | more" Once I set /proc->/var/proc and added it to /etc/fstab, this stopped. Explanation? (Other than sysctl is documented as an undocumented kernel if). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message