Subject: sparc oddities
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/12/2004 22:51:46
Hi, 

I just installed 1.6.2 on a SPARCstation-5.  I'm having a few problems:

1.  /etc/rc complains mightily about things not set in rc.conf, but I
don't know what they are or why I'd want to set them.  

2.  I get repeated "sysctl" messages on the console.   

3.  tar is broken?

	# tar -tzf /etc/etc.tgz 
	/etc/ld.so.conf: unknown sysctl for libc.so.12
	Bad system call - core dumped

I imagine this is all related.  Does it ring any bells?  

Thanks.

--jkl


No messages in /var/log/messages for that, that I can find.  

I have:

NetBSD 1.6.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Feb 11 08:05:11 UTC 2004
   
autobuild@tgm.netbsd.org:/autobuild/netbsd-1-6-PATCH002/sparc/OBJ/autobui
ld/
netbsd-1-6-PATCH002/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 65132 KB
avail memory = 56760 KB
using 839 buffers containing 3356 KB of memory
bootpath:
/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@3,
0
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,SPARCstation-5
cpu0 at mainbus0: MB86904 @ 110 MHz, on-chip FPU
cpu0: 16K instruction (32 b/l), 8K data (16 b/l): cache enabled

# uname -a
sysctl
NetBSD styx.schemamania.org 1.6.2 NetBSD 1.6.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Feb 11
08:05:11 UTC 2004    
autobuild@tgm.netbsd.org:/autobuild/netbsd-1-6-PATCH002/sparc/OBJ/autobui
ld/netbsd-1-6-PATCH002/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC sparc


Here are the rc messages:

# grep WARN  /var/log/messages |cut -c22- |tail -8
sysctl
sysctl
sysctl
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $rtclocaltime is not set properly - see
rc.conf(5).
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $veriexec is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $powerd is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $tpctl is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $wsmoused is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $smmsp is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $mixerctl is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $identd is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).