From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 22 9:30:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [213.162.128.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B3D37B71C for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:30:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 1CEC42DC0B; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:36:04 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9A2997817; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:33:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6D210E1D; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:33:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:33:57 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: Luigi Rizzo , small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top in PicoBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > > > > If I remember well, this dependancy was removed in -current, but I would > > > > strongly advise against using -current right now... :-/ The fixes required > > > > some changes in the sysctl tree as well, so you can't just get -current > > > > top(1) sources and recompile them on -stable box... > > > > > > Thanks! But actually I only boot from floppy and then export the whole > > > /usr from FreeBSD server. So, whether in this case the problem is really > > > in the library, not in the PicoBSD kernel? I have the error message: > > > > > > top: nlist failed > > > > Top, in that unfixed version, has to be able to access physical, > > unstripped /kernel binary which corresponds to the running kernel, in > > order to divine the formats and addresses of the variables it wants to > > access (this is what libkvm does in the background). > > Well, but sorry I do not understand why libkvm does not do it on PicoBSD > when I run top? Why other dynamic libraries are loaded (e.g., I run X from > exported /usr) but not libkvm? Read again carefully the above paragraph I wrote: libkvm depends on the accessibility of the file that contains unstripped, ungzipped binary image of the running kernel. You don't have it in the standard versions of PicoBSD. Ergo: libkvm fails to work properly. Andrzej // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // Andrzej Bialecki , Chief System Architect // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message