From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 22 21: 4:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C01937B77F for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:04:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA02741; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:04:32 -0700 Message-ID: <397A6EA2.AF23C269@urx.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:03:46 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Dynacom Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Cc: Richard Stanaford , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nlist - REHASH References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Richard Stanaford wrote: > > > All, > > > > I have been carousing the mailing lists, both -stable and -questions, and I > > have not found a definitive answer for this problem... > > > > PROBLEM : top (among others) is broken after going to STABLE. > > > > I know this is a FAQ. What is the preferred method for fixing this? Should I > > implement the patches referred to by : > > > > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/152/2000/5/0/3727446/ > > > > or should I fix the loader? What is exactly wrong with the loader and how is > > it fixed? > > The usual problem is that you install a new kernel, but not the rest of > the world. If that is indead what you've done, fix that first before > worrying about anythig else. Not in this case. If you boot to single user mode and exit, top doesn't work. If you shutdown now to single user mode and exit, top works. There is obviously something broken in the way the loader deals with single user mode. Kent > > Tom > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message