From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 16:32:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (hydrant.intranova.net [209.201.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890F637BCB0 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:32:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrant.intranova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6E3E10BC; Wed, 17 May 2000 19:32:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:32:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Paul Schiro Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hi! In-Reply-To: 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 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 > > 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