From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 4:51:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64BE37B9AB for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 04:51:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-194-8-209-56.netcologne.de [194.8.209.56]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA12023; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:51:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e7ABpXP63319; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:51:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:51:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: "Derrick T. Woolworth" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps: bad namelist In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000810050942.00b666a0@mail.rndassociates.com> 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 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 An outdated /bin/ps?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