From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 13 10:06:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA29636 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 10:06:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA29630 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 10:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id MAA22400; Tue, 13 May 1997 12:05:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199705131705.MAA22400@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: ps don't work in 2.2.1-R To: jakob@teligent.se (Jakob Alvermark) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:05:43 -0500 (CDT) Cc: spork@super-g.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Jakob Alvermark at "May 13, 97 05:18:32 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Jakob Alvermark said: > On Mon, 12 May 1997, spork wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 May 1997, Jakob Alvermark wrote: > > > > > I've installed FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE a couple of weeks ago. Seems to work > > > > Did you install or did you upgrade? > > Install. From scratch. Re-partitioned the harddrive. > > > > When I run 'ps' it doesn´t show any processes, it says: > > > ps: proc size mismatch > > > > Sounds like you have an old "ps" looking at a new /proc... > > Aha.. I don't remember, but I think this problem came up after I > recompiled the kernel. > What can I do? Recompile "ps"? Well if you did a fresh install, then it can't be old ps and new proc. But if it started when you did a new kernel, maybe your config is wrong. Do you have options PROCFS in your config? If you can why don't you try rebooting an old kernel (either the last one or the generic), and see if ps works. If it does. Then you've got a config problem. Paul. -- "Brenda Malthwit: attorney at law, young, attractive, well educated, and full of self-confidence; a woman who, as swiftly as her lascivious male co-workers undressed her with their eyes, would mentally fold the clothes neatly and put them in a pile." -- Rick Vetter of Riverside, CA "miscellaneous dishonorable mentions" to the 12th annual Bulwer-Lytton contest for bad fiction,