Re: Fwd: NPF: boot time dlopen error

["g.lister" <g.lister%nodeunit.com@localhost>]

On 06/15/2014 05:21 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "g.lister" <g.lister%nodeunit.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > I am running 6.1.4 stable on an i386 I have loaded the modules required
> > via boot.cfg:
> >
> >         # modstat | grep npf
> >         npf               driver     boot       2     34883    -
> >         npf_ext_log       misc       boot       0     1091     npf,
> >         npf_ext_normalise misc       boot       0     929      npf,
> >
> > During boot I get this message:
> >
> >         Enabling NPF.
> >         npfctl: dlopen: Cannot open "/usr/lib/npf/ext_log.so"
>
> Probably the easiest way is for you to make sure /usr gets mounted
> before npf runs.  This is a longstannding historical issue to support
> netbooting and diskless workstatations (back when in the mid/late 80s
> disks were really expensive).  Basically, the notion was that / was
> mounted at boot, either locally or over NFS, and then one had to bring
> up networking, and then mount the other filesystems, whcih could be
> remote and might need networking.
>
> Now, that makes little sense, as I don't know of anyone that has /usr
> remote mounted from someplace that needs more than the local net.
> Actually I don't know of anyone remote mounting it other than for
> testing and bootstrapping systems without working disk drivers.
>
> So in rc.conf, put
>
> critical_filesystems_remote="/var /usr"

That did it now the message is gone, thanks!!!, but still when the 
machine starts and I do: 'npfctl show' I get:

        Filtering:      active
        Configuration:  empty

Only after an 'npfctl reload' can I see the rules from the config. I 
have naturally set 'npf=YES' so I am not sure why.... they are not being 
loaded during a reboot....


> which should cause mountcritlocal to mount these, and IIRC that happens
> before the network stuff.  If that doesn't help, looking at the output of
>
>    cd /etc/rc.d && rcorder *
>
> and reading the scripts that do mounting may be helpful.