limits: setrlimit umtxp: Invalid argument

Eric van Gyzen eric at vangyzen.net
Wed Mar 9 15:59:48 UTC 2016


On 03/09/2016 09:49, Brendan Sechter wrote:
> I am running an 11.0-CURRENT VM.
> After recently updating, the following appears on startup and dhclient fails to start.
>
> Starting dhclient.
> limits: setrlimit umtxp: Invalid argument
> /etc/rc.d/dhclient: WARNING: failed to start dhclient
>
> Similar messages appear for the following.
>
> devd pflog syslogd ntpd powerd sshd sendmail_submit sendmail_msp_queue cron
>
> Reverting to the previous kernel did not resolve the issue.
> I can manually start dhclient and ntp, but not sshd.
>
> I do not trust that my uname information is being updated with with build, but here
> it is.
>
> $ uname -vm
> FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r287598: Thu Sep 10 14:45:48 JST 2015     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIRAGE_KERNEL  amd64

This information comes directly from the running kernel, so it looks
like your kernel is not getting updated.  This seems consistent with the
above error messages, although I haven't tested this case.  The userland
tools are aware of the newly added umtxp limit, but the kernel is not aware.

Eric


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