Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:14:18 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange log message about "bad file descriptor" Message-ID: <20020323101418.A64992@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <15516.50509.11088.833822@horsey.gshapiro.net>; from gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:11:25AM -0800 References: <20020323091152.A64479@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <15516.50509.11088.833822@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 10:11:25AM -0800, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > sgk> Cvsup was run this morning (23 Mar 02) at 0623 PST. > sgk> After the standard "make" sequence and installation > sgk> of a new kernel. The following appears during the > sgk> boot process (apologies for long lines). > > sgk> Mar 23 09:04:30 12-230-81-20 sm-queue[181]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): fill_fd: before readcf: fd 1 not open: Bad file descriptor > > This is almost certainly caused by this commit: > > Revision 1.304, Fri Mar 22 23:45:13 2002 UTC by obrien > Branch: MAIN > CVS Tags: HEAD > Changes since 1.303: +5 -5 lines > > Sendmail can be slow to startup. > So start it in the background to speed up booting. > > Apparently, during bootup the tty isn't available to processes started in > the background. The best thing to do is back out this commit. In the mean > time, the warnings can be ignored. Yes, I came to the same conclusion after David Wolfskill pointed out that this is probably related to sendmail. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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