Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:17:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Phillip White <philw@webmaster.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps: bad namelist Message-ID: <19990415111713.M23745@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904141332040.15989-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 01:33:13PM -0700 References: <4.2.0.32.19990412175912.00c4dbb0@server.webmaster.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904141332040.15989-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Wednesday, 14 April 1999 at 13:33:13 -0700, Doug White wrote: > 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 Sounds like /var/db/kvm_kernel.db fell out of date.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? Well, modulo the release it's what you asked for. It sounds right to me, too, but it does make it difficult to decide whether to handle this question here or on -CURRENT. Phillip, did you also reboot? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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