From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 9 20: 7:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E847714E5A for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 20:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA15334; Mon, 10 May 1999 12:37:06 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA44432; Mon, 10 May 1999 12:37:04 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:37:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris England Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Processes in parentheses? Message-ID: <19990510123704.Z22791@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990510121759.W22791@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris England on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 08:15:25PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 9 May 1999 at 20:15:25 -0700, Chris England wrote: >> Two possibilties: >> >> 1. They're swapped out. This is the usual reason. >> >> 2. Your ps(1) doesn't match your kernel. I think this is what you're >> seeing here, since your ps itself is shown like that, and you're >> missing things like CPU time. I'd guess you've upgraded your >> kernel or your userland, and not the other. > > I had a problem similar to this after doing a make world and > building a new kernel ( from the same source tree from RELENG_3 ). > Programs that used /proc were not functioning properly. I figured > something was out of sync, so I did make world again and built a new > kernel from the same source, with the same results. The following day, I > updated my source tree, tried again and it worked fine. I posted to > questions@ and got replies from others having the same problem. > > Do you know if there was something broken in the code then? > ( early March ). No, I don't know, but it's conceivable. In particular, you can always be unlucky when supping, and get a partial update. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message