> Interestingly, "sysctl -a -N" spits out names, but then seems to fall > into a rut: > [....] > net.inet.udp.getcred > net.inet.accf.unloadable > net.inet.accf.373 > net.inet.accf.373 > net.inet.accf.373 [....] > Looks as if it's looping with no termination conditions being matched. When I got the same problem on my -current machine today, I found that net.inet.accf and net.inet.raw had the same oid. The system booted normally after changing the start oid for dynamically assigned sysctl entries from 100 to 256. - Tor Egge
Index: sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c,v retrieving revision 1.110 diff -u -r1.110 kern_sysctl.c --- sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c 2001/06/22 19:54:38 1.110 +++ sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c 2001/07/22 09:33:11 @@ -110,10 +110,10 @@ /* * If this oid has a number OID_AUTO, give it a number which * is greater than any current oid. Make sure it is at least - * 100 to leave space for pre-assigned oid numbers. + * 256 to leave space for pre-assigned oid numbers. */ if (oidp->oid_number == OID_AUTO) { - static int newoid = 100; + static int newoid = 256; oidp->oid_number = newoid++; if (newoid == 0x7fffffff)