From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 11 20:48:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cgi.sstar.com (cgi.sstar.com [209.205.176.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5258837B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:47:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluto.jimking.net (root@bluto.jimking.net [216.54.255.8]) by cgi.sstar.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0C4lo848116 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:47:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.4]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f0C4lmo77451; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:47:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <00ca01c07c52$d1399bf0$04e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Erich Zigler" , References: <20010111224451.A277@superhero.org> Subject: Re: Interesting plight Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:47:48 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Erich Zigler" : > A couple days ago I was mentioning about my ps and top problems. Well at the > advice of a FreeBSD user I went and installed the bin distribution for > 4.2-RELEASE rebooted with the 4.2-RELEASE kernel and everything was golden. > I could ps and top and kill I was one happy guy. > > Well I cvsup'ed my source tree, and went through the process as is outlined > in /usr/src/UPDATING of updating my source tree to 4.2-STABLE. I finish this > procedure, and ps and top fail to work. > > What is wrong? > > Why will it work on 4.2-RELEASE but not 4.2-STABLE? It sure sounds like your userland and kernel are out of sync. Are you absolutely sure you're building and installing a new kernel, and that you've rebooted? What's the timestamp on /kernel? Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message