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Date:      Sun, 1 Nov 2015 10:58:12 +0100
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre@fbsd.ata.myota.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, andre@fbsd.ata.myota.org
Subject:   Re: ntpd crashing after update
Message-ID:  <20151101095812.GA5579@voyager>
In-Reply-To: <562F55AD.7020405@freebsd.org>
References:  <562F38D5.40107@qeng-ho.org> <562F55AD.7020405@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, 27-Oct-2015 at 10:45:01 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/27/15 08:41, Arthur Chance wrote:
> > I updated my systems yesterday in response to FreeBSD-SA-15:25.ntp, and
> > now ntpd crashes on SEGV, but only on 2 out of 3 of the machines running
> > it. I have no idea whether it's relevant, but the one that doesn't crash
> > is the only one with source installed. Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Yes -- I've seen that on the one machine I've tried to update so far.
> ntpd crashes for me after freebsd-update(8).
> 
> Anecdotal evidence is that rebooting apparently causes the updated ntpd
> to function normally.  I'd be interested in hearing if people can
> confirm that, because it means there is system state somehow carrying
> over from one invocation of ntpd to another.

I have just posted my observations to the freebsd-stable list:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2015-November/083574.html

What happens if you add "rlimit memlock -1" to ntp.conf?

	-Andre



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