Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:51:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: "Derrick T. Woolworth" <coeus@servetheweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps: bad namelist Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101345050.62682-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000810050942.00b666a0@mail.rndassociates.com>
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Derrick T. Woolworth wrote: > Recently, I believe the kernel name list has gotten corrupted - > not sure exactly. ps returns "bad namelist". > > The kvm_kernel.db file was set to 0 bytes - after reading the > handbook a little the only thing I found mentioned was to remove > the file and reboot the machine. However, the file isn't getting > generated. > > Is there a way to create the file manually? It used to be "kvm_mkdb" but this has been put out to pasture, and now nlist lookups are done directly. > Is there some reason why this has become a problem all of a > sudden? An outdated /bin/ps? A stripped kernel? I don't know for sure. Someone Jun 15-16 on -questions also had the same problem with 4.0. He even built world and the problem was still there. He also didn't post how he solved it. :( -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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