From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 9 21:28:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BFD37B405 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DougBarton.net (db-cvad-2-tmp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.243]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729568B5B5; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:28:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BC3CE61.CF116CD6@DougBarton.net> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:28:17 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: "Robin P. Blanchard" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console References: <3BC31377.9F39B0E7@gactr.uga.edu> <200110100149.f9A1ng770780@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <3BC31377.9F39B0E7@gactr.uga.edu> "Robin P. Blanchard" writes: > : me being at *the* console), i get the ubiquitous "top: nlist failed" > : messages, which really sucks as i'd like to be able to keep an eye on > : icecast/liveice/lame. > : > : this box has been doing this since becoming headless (back in > : 4.2-STABLE) and has continued so until its current state (4.4-STABLE). > : > : ideas? > > Rebuild top with the same sources as your kernel. That won't solve this problem. Early versions of 4.x. had issues when they didn't get booted with all 3 stages of the boot loader. The user already mentioned having 'kernel -P' in his /boot.config, which is almost certainly the problem. Changing that to just -P should do it. Doug -- "We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail." - George W. Bush, President of the United States September 20, 2001 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message