kern/72263: gifconfig output corruption

[Jonas Nagel]

The following reply was made to PR kern/72263; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonas Nagel <fireball at zerouptime.ch>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/72263: gifconfig output corruption
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:38:41 +0200

 > This sort of error is usually a symptom of your userland and kernel
 > being out of sync.
 
 Hrm. Cannot imagine that as I usually do installkernel/installworld/mergemaster
 at the same time before booting once (minor version/fixes upgrade),
 because I don't want to make exactly this stuff happen (I could forget
 to do the installworld, yadda yadda...).
 
 > This is the expected output from that command.  The configuration lines
 > do not contain the string gif so the grep won't match them...
 
 Um, right, my fault. But that is not the issue though:
 
 got# ifconfig gif0
 gif0: flags=8011<UP,POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
 got# ifconfig gif1
 gif1: flags=8011<UP,POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
 
 > This sounds like some sort of memory corruption.  I don't give us any
 > real chance of being able to fix this problem with so little
 > information.  I can't replicate it here.
 
 I hear ya. Well what I can do anyway; do the upgrade to RELEASE-p2 and
 then reinstall everything again during the process and make sure that I
 don't miss anything during the upgrade (in case I really did forget the
 installworld or something). And then I'd report back with a new pr, if
 this would happen again.
 
 In meantime I guess you should close the pr, doing this stressed little
 bulky bugreporting system a favour, not having to list this report
 anymore (since this could take quite a while and finally might forget
 about it, if it does not repeat).
 
 Thanks for your quick response anyway; I'm impressed.
 
 -- 
 Jonas Nagel <fireball at zerouptime.ch>