From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 11 8:23:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838ED37B405 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:23:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0574A43F18 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:23:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030111162344053006md2fe>; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:23:44 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0BGNh8O011820 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:23:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0BGNgJo011817; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:23:42 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "dhclient: no memory for option buffer" ? References: <20030110110347.B30510-100000@benny.geektank.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Jan 2003 11:23:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030110110347.B30510-100000@benny.geektank.org> Message-ID: <4465svodtd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG questions@FreeBSD.ORG writes: > I'm getting this weird message reported by syslogd: > > dhclient: no memory for option buffer. > > Obviously this means that dhclient is reporting some sort of memory error, > but what exactly? It just started reporting this error reecntly after I > had a power outage, but everything else seems OK. > > I did some searching in the archives but couldn't find anything on this. > Can anyone enlighten me? That error goes all the way back to malloc(), so it sounds like something got mangled on your system. Despite the fact that nothing else seems to be having problems, I'd suspect the system libraries first, but it could well be dhclient as well. If you keep your system up-to-date on any kind of regular basis, now might be a good time for an upgrade. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message