My server is active yet and the problem occurs in this moment,
but the kernel was not compiled with DDB and I cant have root
access.

Does it can help?

Heron Gallegos

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Giles Lean wrote:
> > In august 2001, Jim Breton reported the same problem (1.5.1)
> > see the following link
> >
> > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2001/08/04/0000.html
>
> I started looking at this, but got distracted multiple times.
>
> What I found from core files that Jim provided to me was that poll(2)
> was returning 1 to say that there is an event on one of the file
> descriptors, but the loop that checks the poll() return wasn't seeing
> the event.  The event turned out to be POLLNVAL and the code doesn't
> check for POLLNVAL anywhere which is a definite bug.
>
> What I did not complete doing was:
>
> a) figuring out why one of the file descriptors was not valid anymore
> b) deciding what to do to fix the code
>
> Point (c) would be write the fix, but for sundry reasons it shouldn't
> be me doing coding a NetBSD syslogd fix.  Is there a volunteer in the
> audience? :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Giles
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