From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 13:35:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2875614D2F for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02739; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:33:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Phillip White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps: bad namelist In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990412175912.00c4dbb0@server.webmaster.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Phillip White wrote: > I recently installed 3.1-release off CD's. Everything was fine - > running perfect. Than one day for no reason at all - no new kernel - > no odd shutdowns - `ps' all of a sudden outputs "ps: bad namelist". Sounds like /var/db/kvm_kernel.db fell out of date. Try wiping the file and rebuilding/reinstalling your kernel. > So I proceeded to cvsup the 4.0-current src tree and after reading the > UPDATING in /usr/src I made the world _twice_ and than built a new > kernel in hops that the ps problem would go away. Er, do you realize what you just got yourself into? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message