Thus spake Wenchi Liao
> Playing with sysctl on i386 netbsd1.4, and got this
> message. Is this a bad thing?
> 
> The rest of sysctl's output seemed fine. Looking through
> the kernel sources and include files didn't turn up
> anything particularly enlightening to me...

Are you by any chance upgrading your system?  I seem to recall seeing
this while moving from 1.4.1 to -current on a system but it looks
fine now.  Perhaps you have a kernel/sysctl mismatch.

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