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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:13:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Cc:        davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: current breaks 2.0.5 binary
Message-ID:  <199507170113.SAA00595@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507170058.DAA08168@shadows.cs.hut.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Jul 17, 95 03:58:38 am

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> 
>    >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



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