From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 14:47:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F4A16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:47:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smart.eusc.inter.net (smart.eusc.inter.net [213.73.101.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E54943D46 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:47:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from msch@snafu.de) Received: from pd9e6a031.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.230.160.49] helo=stable.alpenflugzentrum.de) by smart.eusc.inter.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1D7E5s-0004Sk-00; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:47:56 +0100 Received: from stable.alpenflugzentrum.de (localhost.alpenflugzentrum.de [127.0.0.1])j24ElmHf001010; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:47:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from msch@snafu.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) j24ElmcJ001009; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:47:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from msch@snafu.de) X-Authentication-Warning: stable.alpenflugzentrum.de: matthias set sender to msch@snafu.de using -f From: Matthias Schuendehuette Organization: Micro$oft-free Zone To: Scott Long Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:47:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200503031618.34635.msch@snafu.de> <4227EDC6.20909@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <4227EDC6.20909@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503041547.47929.msch@snafu.de> cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] ABI broken for 5.4-PRERELEASE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: msch@snafu.de List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:47:57 -0000 Hi Scott, Thanks for you reply. Am Freitag, 4. März 2005 06:10 schrieb Scott Long: > Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > > > > The error message is: "xsysinfo: undefined symbol: _nfiles" > > > > I had the belief, that this does not happen within a major release > > of FreeBSD... isn't it? > > This looks like an accident. John Baldwin committed a fix to > RELENG_5 a few hours ago, so if you can update and retest, it would > be appreciated. Yes, you're right! I re-cvsupped the sources and voila - xsysinfo(1) works again. Obviously I met "the right moment"[TM] with my last update... :-/ ...never mind. > Note the xsysinfo gropes around in KVM, which is > highly fragile. Most of the information that it's looking for is > available via sysctl's, which are a lot more stable and reliable. It > would be nice if xsysinfo was changed to use these instead. I looked at the sources, but did not get the basic understanding - at least not instantly. In the moment i try to improove gvinum together with le. There are still some areas where gvinum can't be called 'fail-save' - as I experienced last weekend... Anyway - thanks a lot again! Problem solved. -- Ciao/BSD - Matthias Matthias Schuendehuette , Berlin (Germany) PGP-Key at and ID: 0xDDFB0A5F