From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 16:25:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aero.org (aero.org [130.221.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3E637B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:25:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by aero.org id <17143-3>; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:24:50 -0700 Received: from rushe.aero.org(130.221.201.83) via SMTP by aero.org, id smtpdAAAa27778; Wed Sep 20 16:24:27 2000 Received: from calamari.aero.org (calamari.aero.org [130.221.202.67]) by rushe.aero.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03477; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cal@localhost) by calamari.aero.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id QAA03824; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009202324.QAA03824@calamari.aero.org> From: cal@rushe.aero.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.0 proc size mismatch from 'w' Cc: cal@rushe.aero.org Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:24:38 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, all - i am running 4.0 on a number of machines, with a custom kernel (though i think this happened also for GENERIC), and they all exhibit the following problem: when i run ps or w, it fails with the message proc size mismatch (... total, 1044 chunks) where the ... is a number that varies, and w also says one of several things in addition: no such file or directory permission denied undefined error: 0 the first one occurred for a while, and the second one occurred after i recompiled w, until i set the permissions of the executable to 02555, but now it is consistently the last one (file utmp does exist and is readable - who does work properly) where should i go look for more information? i can rtfm if i know which fm to look for - i do not remember seeing anything about this in the handbook or in greg lehey's book (2nd ed.) more soon, cal Dr. Christopher Landauer Aerospace Integration Science Center The Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop M6/214 P.O.Box 92957 Los Angeles, California 90009-2957, USA e-mail: cal@aero.org Phone: +1 (310) 336-1361 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message