From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 16:31:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flux.tribble.net (flux.tribble.net [198.49.247.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F4037BCB0 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:31:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tribble@tribble.net) Received: from localhost (tribble@localhost) by flux.tribble.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA45636 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 17:31:04 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:31:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Paul Schiro To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: hi! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hey there... I've been with FreeBSD since 2.1.5 and loving it ever since :) props to jordan and all of you guys and gals that make this project the beautiful thing that it is that said, i believe this is the first time i've mailed questions@ i'm just stumped on this one... my 4.0 box at work is on really flaky hardware that very much needs to be replaced... i've had it spontaneously reset on me. seems to recover pretty well from it, but i'm getting something i've never ever seen before: -= snip =- neutron:[~]> ps ps: proc size mismatch (25152 total, 1044 chunks) neutron:[~]> top kvm_open: proc size mismatch (54496 total, 1044 chunks) top: Out of memory. neutron:[~]> w 5:26PM up 1:04, 7 users, load averages: 0.17, 0.08, 0.07 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT w: proc size mismatch (54496 total, 1044 chunks): Undefined error: 0 -= snip =- are a few examples. i suppose utmp or procfs or some such thing just got corrupted from the machine crashing while a process was writing to them possibly... my questions: 1) do you know what specifically is causing this? 2) is there a way i can rebuild whatever file(s) got corrupted so i can be able to use ps and other such essential things agian? Thanks much in advance! Regards, Paul Schiro http://www.tribble.net/ "Those who don't know UNIX are doomed to reinvent it... Poorly..." p.s. yes i know my signature isn't very original ;) but i dig it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message