conf/174595: /etc/rc.d/sysctl : unknown oid ' XXX' [regression]

[Olivier Smedts]

The following reply was made to PR conf/174595; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Olivier Smedts <olivier at gid0.org>
To: d at delphij.net
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/174595: /etc/rc.d/sysctl : unknown oid 'XXX' [regression]
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:16:12 +0100

 In the compat.linux.osrelease case it's not a fatal error, it seems
 that sysctl manages to set the correct value after the linux kld is
 loaded by linux_enable="YES", even if it failed the first time.
 
 % sysctl compat.linux.osrelease
 compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.32
 
 I don't really know why and which mechanism is responsible of this but
 it behaves like "late" mounts.
 
 
 2012/12/24 Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net>:
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