From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 18:13:39 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA17455 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:13:39 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA17443 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:13:35 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA00595; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:13:57 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507170113.SAA00595@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: current breaks 2.0.5 binary To: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199507170058.DAA08168@shadows.cs.hut.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Jul 17, 95 03:58:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 914 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > >kvm_open: proc size mismatch (35520 total, 620 chunks) > >top: Out of memory. > > " NOTE: libkvm, w, ps, 'top', and any other utility which depends on struct > proc or any VM system structure will have to be rebuilt!!! " > > In addition, I had to remove /var/db/kvm_kernel.db and rebuild it. Just > rebuilding produced a core dump from kvm_mkdb. This is the bug that should be fixed, kvm_mkdb must be blowing up in the attempt to validate the current db file, it should not do that :-(. > Could it be sensible to add > > rm -f /var/db/kvm_kernel.db > > before kvm_mkdb in /etc/rc? This is a bandaid to hide the real bug, I do not want a bandaid, I want a real fix :-). Now the crux, I can't get kvm_mkdb to core for me :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD