From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 10:52:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670AA37B423 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8THqVY26430; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:52:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "bad namelist" References: <008901c02989$e8a85c20$45010a0a@ronannotebook> <200009291351.IAA01410@smtp.intop.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 29 Sep 2000 13:52:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: charlie@infoworks.net's message of "29 Sep 2000 15:50:27 +0200" Message-ID: <444s2zqe5c.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG charlie@infoworks.net (Charlie Schloemer) writes: > On 28 Sep 00, at 16:23, Ronan Eckelberry, Sr. Systems Administrat wrote: > > > Does anyone know why all of the sudden I would be getting a "bad = > > namelist" error when trying to do a "w", "ps", or "uptime". I don't = > > know of anything that has been done to this box that would cause that. > > > > -Ronan > > As I understand this, there is a bug in FreeBSD 4.0 that *can* > cause this problem after awhile. Perhaps, but the *usual* cause of this question is updating the kernel without updating the userland (or vice versa). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message