Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:32:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net> To: Paul Schiro <tribble@tribble.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hi! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005171932300.29933-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171723050.45590-100000@flux.tribble.net>
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cd /usr/src/lib/libkvm make clean make make install Those 4 commands should do it... On Wed, 17 May 2000, Paul Schiro wrote: > > 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 > <tribble@tribble.net> > 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 > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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