From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 7 2:18:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89B837B503 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:17:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id f17AHsq95252 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:17:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (root@[134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.11.1/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id f17AHq321535 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:17:52 +0100 (MET) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f17AHr000567 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:17:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michel) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:17:53 +0100 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird kernel problem Message-ID: <20010207111753.B497@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 09:48:26AM +0000, Mark Powell wrote: > Hi, > Had a machine on which top hasn't been working for a while. I thought > maybe I'd not rebuilt the system properly, so I brought it and another > machine up to date with 4.2S yesterday. Did make world on both and rebuilt > their kernels, both from the same config file. They should both be the > same after that, right? > Now both are rebooted top still fails with "top: nlist > failed". Strangely, in memory the kernel is rather large: > Probably you load the kernel with the boot blocks on one machine and with /boot/loader on the other one. Unfortunately the first method does not work any more and you need to use loader even if you don't need any of its features. I intend to see if grub is able to load the kernel without these problems. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message