From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 29 13:22:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.hitter.net (mailhub.hitter.net [207.192.64.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2AA37B503 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ronannotebook (nffw.hitter.net [207.192.64.61]) by mailhub.hitter.net (MYOB) with SMTP id QAA28597; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:22:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000f01c02a53$007c1d40$45010a0a@ronannotebook> From: "Ronan Eckelberry, Sr. Systems Administrator" To: , "Lowell Gilbert" References: <008901c02989$e8a85c20$45010a0a@ronannotebook> <200009291351.IAA01410@smtp.intop.net> <444s2zqe5c.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Subject: Re: "bad namelist" Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:22:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried going back to the generic kernel, but no luck. If there is a bug in 4.x that does that maybe I'll just go back to 3.x. -Ronan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Gilbert" To: Sent: Friday, 29 September, 2000 13:52 Subject: Re: "bad namelist" > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message