On 2013-05-09, Garrett Wollman <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone else experienced a problem with ntpd crashing very early in > startup? It looks like a memory corruption issue, or at least the > stack is usually corrupt by the time the core file gets written. > > Frustratingly, I cannot reproduce the problem when the "-n" flag is > given to ntpd. Setting MALLOC_OPTIONS to "ADJ" also seems to have a > beneficial effect, although not for long, but enabling ElectricFence > does not make any difference nor does it report any errors. > > The platform here is FreeBSD/amd64 9.1 with both net/ntp (4.2.6p5) and > net/ntp-devel (4.2.7p364) ports. > Are the results any different when using the GENERIC kernel? I have had a similar issue when running a stripped down kernal without any modules built or loaded. I never was able to discover the necessary module that needed to be present for a successful ntp when compiling the system source without building all of the modules. I am also running FreeBSD 9.1 on an amd64 system.
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