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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:51:46 -0700
From:      Jan Koum <jkb@ethereal.net>
To:        Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)
Message-ID:  <20000720165145.A36013@ethereal.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000720153953.G79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org>; from ulf@Alameda.net on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:39:53PM -0700
References:  <20000718210328.A79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> <39752A0B.9CE57DF3@urx.com> <20000719125751.B79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> <39760973.CCFE2BB9@urx.com> <20000720153953.G79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org>

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hey ulf, i bet your /dev/null is no longer nulling:

# cd /dev
# rm null 
# echo "fuck" > null
# ps ax
ps: bad namelist


-- yan

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:39:53PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:02:59PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:09:47PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > I updated via cvsup (cvsup from tuesday afternoon PDT), I went into
> > > > > single user mode, did make world, make buildkernel KERNEL=FOURTYTWO
> > > > > and make installkernel KERNEL=FOURTYTWO. Everything but one thing
> > > > > I can find seems to work fine, but ps doesn't.
> > > >
> > > > Did you boot /FOURTYTWO or do the rename sequence to make it kernel?
> > > > It sounds like your kernel and world might be a little out of
> > > > sequence.
> > > 
> > > I did the move. I rebuild the kernel again, same file size got created.
> > > Yes, I agree it sounds like stuff is out of sync, but I did the complete
> > > world after I cvsup and made the kernel.
> > 
> > I thought it was something simple. I'm running 4.1-RC on 3 computers
> > and ps works on all of them. Having something out of sequence could
> > produce symptoms like that.
> > 
> > FWIW, 4.1-RC is broken right now when you try to build the netinet
> > section. So you can't cvsup to make sure didn't grab files in the
> > middle of an upgrade.
> 
> Sigh, so I did another cvsup around 9am PDT today and did:
> 
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel KERNEL=FOURTYTWO
> make installkernel KERNEL=FOURTYTWO
> make installworld
> 
> then did the chflags, mv etc of the kernel, rebooted
> 
> and still:
> 
> fourtytwo ulf home/ulf > ps
> ps: bad namelist
> fourtytwo ulf home/ulf > which ps
> /bin/ps
> fourtytwo ulf home/ulf > ll /bin/ps 
> 216 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  207748 Jul 20 15:30 /bin/ps
> fourtytwo ulf home/ulf > ll /kernel
> 2560 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2605561 Jul 20 15:29 /kernel
> 
> 
> Anyone got any idea why ?
> 
> > 
> > Kent
> > 
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > Kent
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Trying to use ps:
> > > > >
> > > > > fourtytwo ulf home/ulf > ps
> > > > > ps: bad namelist
> > > > >
> > > > > Rebuilding kerbel, libkvm or ps produce the same bins. "bad namelist"
> > > > > is in error inside of libkvm (kvm_i386.c) after using kvm_nlist.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone got an suggestion what to check or what maybe broken ?
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Regards, Ulf.
> > > > >
> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936
> > > > > Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net  | Fax#: 510-521-5073
> > > > >
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> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Kent Stewart
> > > > Richland, WA
> > > >
> > > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com
> > > > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html
> > > > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/
> > > >
> > > > Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire.
> > > > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Regards, Ulf.
> > > 
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936
> > > Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net  | Fax#: 510-521-5073
> > > 
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> > -- 
> > Kent Stewart
> > Richland, WA
> > 
> > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com
> > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html
> > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/
> > 
> > Bomber dropping fire retardant in front of Hanford Wild fire.
> > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/bomber.jpg
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Ulf.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net  | Fax#: 510-521-5073
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