devd problem after recent upgrade

AN andy at neu.net
Wed Mar 26 03:39:19 UTC 2014



On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Mateusz Guzik wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 02:53:25AM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 09:31:57PM -0400, AN wrote:
>>> I just upgraded to svn r263756 and have a major problem, the system
>>> has no mouse.  When I reboot I see the following message on the
>>> console:
>>> devd:devctl sysctl missing from kernel
>>>
>>> then
>>>
>>> /etc/rc.d failed to start devd, and also I had to run dhclient em0
>>> to get the network started.
>>>
>>> I have not added to or changed any config files.  Has anyone else
>>> seen strange behavior like this recently?  Any help would be
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> That's my fault, I'll fix it shortly.
>>
>
> This is fixed as of r263758.
>
> You will need to at least rebuild devd(8).
>
> Sorry for the breakage.
>
> -- 
> Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>


I confirm r263758 fixes the problem, system operating normally.  Thanks 
for the fast response.


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