Re: syslogd crashes on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE

On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 02:30:35PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> AMD machine.  Just upgraded to 15.0.  Everything works except for syslogd which crashes on startup.  Debug output:
> 
> sermons# /usr/sbin/syslogd -sd
> new socket fd is 6
> shutdown
> sending on socket
> new socket fd is 7
> shutdown
> sending on socket
> Trying peer: /var/run/log
> new socket fd is 8
> listening on socket
> sending on socket
> Trying peer: /var/run/logpriv
> new socket fd is 10
> listening on socket
> sending on socket
> off & running....
> init
> cfline("*.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit		/dev/console", f, "-wn,wnssl,wncert", "*", "*")
> cfline("*.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;mail.crit;wn.crit;wnssl.crit;wncert.crit 	/var/log/messages", f, "-wn,wnssl,wncert", "*", "*")
> Failed to xfer configuration nvlist: Socket is not connected
> logmsg: pri 53, flags 0, from sermons, msg Failed to xfer configuration nvlist: Socket is not connected
> Logging to CONSOLE /dev/console

The underlying problem is that "wn", "wnssl", "wncert" are not valid
syslog facilities, so the configuration parser fails.  Due to a bug, it
doesn't give you a useful message in this case.  Before, the parser was
less strict; we perhaps should restore the old behaviour.

Here is a patch that partly addresses the proble:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55033