misc/147239: network problem with system start

[Garrett Cooper]

The following reply was made to PR misc/147239; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwarz <freebsd.asc at schwarzes.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: misc/147239: network problem with system start
Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 16:18:20 -0700

 On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Andreas Schwarz
 <freebsd.asc at schwarzes.net> wrote:
 >
 >>Number: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 147239
 >>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 misc
 >>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 network problem with system start
 >>Confidential: =A0 no
 >>Severity: =A0 =A0 =A0 critical
 >>Priority: =A0 =A0 =A0 medium
 >>Responsible: =A0 =A0freebsd-bugs
 >>State: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0open
 >>Quarter:
 >>Keywords:
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id: =A0 current-users
 >>Arrival-Date: =A0 Sun May 30 22:10:00 UTC 2010
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator: =A0 =A0 Andreas Schwarz
 >>Release: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A08.1-PRERELEASE
 >>Organization:
 >>Environment:
 > FreeBSD tapir.schwarzes.net 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sun=
  May 30 21:50:08 CEST 2010 =A0 =A0 root at tapir.schwarzes.net:/usr/obj/usr/sr=
 c/sys/tapir.schwarzes.net =A0amd64
 >>Description:
 > After upgrade from 8.0-STABLE #0: (Fri Mar 26 21:58:46 CET 2010),
 > to 8.1-PRERELEASE something seems to be wrong with the network
 > startup. The network is not up when essential network daemons
 > are starting (like ntpd). This causes that they will not work
 > properly. I have to run manually "/etc/rc.d/ntpd restart".
 >
 > Have a look at the following part of the boot log, age0 link
 > state changed to up after the ntpdate/ntpd init is processed.
 > Compared to 8.0-STABLE the ntpdate/ntpd init is processed 3
 > seconds (absolute from kernel log start) earlier, this makes
 > the difference.
 >
 > May 30 22:36:32 tapir ntpdate[633]: can't find host 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.or=
 g
 > May 30 22:36:32 tapir ntpdate[633]: can't find host 1.freebsd.pool.ntp.or=
 g
 > May 30 22:36:32 tapir ntpdate[633]: can't find host 2.freebsd.pool.ntp.or=
 g
 > May 30 22:36:32 tapir ntpdate[633]: no servers can be used, exiting
 > May 30 22:36:32 tapir ntpd[822]: ntpd 4.2.4p5-a (1)
 > May 30 22:36:32 tapir kernel: fuse4bsd: version 0.3.9-pre1, FUSE ABI 7.8
 > May 30 22:36:34 tapir ntpd_initres[830]: host name not found: 0.freebsd.p=
 ool.ntp.org
 > May 30 22:36:34 tapir ntpd_initres[830]: couldn't resolve `0.freebsd.pool=
 .ntp.org', giving up on it
 > May 30 22:36:34 tapir ntpd_initres[830]: host name not found: 1.freebsd.p=
 ool.ntp.org
 > May 30 22:36:34 tapir ntpd_initres[830]: couldn't resolve `1.freebsd.pool=
 .ntp.org', giving up on it
 > May 30 22:36:34 tapir ntpd_initres[830]: host name not found: 2.freebsd.p=
 ool.ntp.org
 > May 30 22:36:34 tapir ntpd_initres[830]: couldn't resolve `2.freebsd.pool=
 .ntp.org', giving up on it
 > May 30 22:36:34 tapir kernel: age0: link state changed to UP
 
 This issue has existed for some time now, but has only become more
 noticeable in 8.0+ with the rc script rework.
 
 koitsu@ had a proposal out a while back to hack around this problem,
 but I'm not sure what the status is on his work.
 
 Thanks,
 -Garrett