From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 19: 3:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F30637B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:03:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA20906; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:16:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: cal@rushe.aero.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 proc size mismatch from 'w' In-Reply-To: <200009202324.QAA03824@calamari.aero.org> 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 On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 cal@rushe.aero.org wrote: > > hi, all - > > i am running 4.0 on a number of machines, with a custom kernel (though i > think this happened also for GENERIC), and they all exhibit the > following problem: when i run ps or w, it fails with the message > > proc size mismatch (... total, 1044 chunks) Have you upgraded your source recently? I have only seen this happen when the lib_kvm gets out of synch with the kernel. ( I can't explain. I jsut fixed it according to help from this list. ) Try cd /usr/src/lib/libkvm make make install Or rebuild the world. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message