On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:36:05AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:

> This is interesting!
> 
> I had a similar problem with ntpd (NOT ntpdate) when I moved from 
> 4.99.29 to 4.99.31, but only when ntpd was invoked during startup;  it 
> would successfully start up later on, but consistently hangs if I 
> executed it during normal startup.

Can you get backtraces from the hung threads in ddb? 'ps/l' then 't/a foo'
with the LWP addresses. From what I have heard the hung threads will have
their wait string as 'tstile'.

Thanks,
Andrew