sysctl segfaulting

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Friday, 23. February 2007 18:47, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock wrote:
>  > Does anybody have any further ideas on this?
>
> I've had a quick look at the source.  According to your
> debugging info, an invalid pointer is passed to the
> S_clockinfo() function, but it's beyond me how that
> could happen.  The code in show_var() which calls that
> function looks perfectly OK.
>
> It's also interesting that you seem to be the only one
> experiencing the problem.  Are you using any special
> compiler options, anything unusual in /etc/make.conf
> or /etc/malloc.conf?  Do you use a non-default locale
> environment (i.e. are any of the LC_* or LANG variables
> set)?

LANG is set (but LANG=C makes no difference) and otherwise, the only setting 
out of the ordinary is kern.hz="2000" in loader.conf. The values reported by 
the FreeBSD 5 sysctl binary for kern.clockrate are

kern.clockrate: { hz = 2000, tick = 500, profhz = 1333, stathz = 266 }

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