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Subject: Re: errors from ps & w 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 03:41:38 -0700
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>Hi,
>
>     I'm running FreeBSD-current as of 04/03 and ``ps'' and ``w'' give
>following error.
>
>% w
> 6:38PM  up 1 min, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01
>USER     TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
>w: proc size mismatch (26144 total, 612 chunks): Undefined error: 0
>% ps -a
>ps: proc size mismatch (26144 total, 612 chunks)
>%
>
>     First, I rebooted the system and the errors didn't go away.  Then
>I replaced ``ps'', ``w'' and the kernel with the ones compiled from
>the latest sources and the problem stayed there, too.
>
>     Now, what could be causing this?  Any suggestion is appreciated.

   Rebuild and install libkvm and *then* rebuild w and ps.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project