On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:27:05AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:

> When I try to boot a -current kernel (with options COMPAT_40 included) on a
> slightly older userland, the startup of ntpd hangs.
> 
> ps in ddb shows:
> 
>  266              1      266          0 2       0    1             ntpd  tstile
> 
> and it never proceeds. Everything else seems to work fine. I vaguely recall
> this had been mentioned before - did anyone analyze it?

I haven't seen this. Can you get a backtrace from the thread? If you have
LOCKDEBUG, 'show lock' on the wchan should display where it's held.

Andrew