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diff --git a/open_issues/increasing_bogus_port_at_boot.mdwn b/open_issues/increasing_bogus_port_at_boot.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..483b2844 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/increasing_bogus_port_at_boot.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2016 Free Software +Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_porting]] + +When the ntpdate package is installed, one gets at boot something like: + + Debian GNU/Hurd stretch/sid debian console + task ext2fs increasing a bogus port 947 by 1, most probably a bug. + task ext2fs increasing a bogus port 947 by 1, most probably a bug. + task ext2fs deallocating a bogus port 947, most probably a bug. + task ext2fs deallocating a bogus port 947, most probably a bug. + login: + +This is coming from the execution of the shell script +/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate, whose stdout/stderr is on the Mach console, but +part of which gets executed after getty starts on it. It happens that getty uses +revoke() to revoke access to it from other programs, and thus the ntpdate shell +scripts gets its stdout/stderr in a bogus state, which libc doesn't really cope +with correctly. + +Commenting `c:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 console` from `/etc/inittab` works +around the issue (but removes the getty from the Mach console) |