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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:45:23 -0700
From:      "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: top(1) and/or /dev/mem problems in 4.4-RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <20010925004523.B74245@malkavian.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010924233446.Z74245@malkavian.org>; from rbw@myplace.org on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:34:46PM -0700
References:  <20010924233446.Z74245@malkavian.org>

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well, it looks like i'm really not insane...

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=21930+0+current/freebsd-alpha

for the record, i did have my securelevel raised to 2; rebooting with the
"kern_securelevel*" lines commented out in rc.conf solved the problem.

thanks, bright!

-brian


On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:34:46PM -0700, brian j. peterson wrote:
> since upgrading to 4.4-R, i have not been able to run top(1).  the helpful
> folks on EFnet #FreeBSDhelp asked me a few questions, but were unable to
> solve my problem, so now i turn to the mailing lists...
> 
> top(1) worked earlier this morning when i was still at 4.3-RELEASE-p17,
> but now...
> 
> # top
> kvm_open: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted
> # 
> 
> because this info might be helpful in solving the problem...
> 
> # id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest)
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD nikita 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #3: Mon Sep 24 11:21:02 MST 2001     root@nikita:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HARLOT  alpha
> # ls -al /usr/bin/top
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  52416 Sep 24 09:19 /usr/bin/top
> # ls -al /dev/mem
> crw-r-----  1 root  kmem    2,   0 Sep 24 09:42 /dev/mem
> # ls -al /dev/kmem
> crw-r-----  1 root  kmem    2,   1 Sep 24 09:42 /dev/kmem
> # 
> 
> any guesses as to what caused this or what i can do to fix it?  if any
> more info is needed, please let me know.
> 
> thanks,
> brian
> 
> 
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