From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 5 20:44:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB0416A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924C243D39 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:44:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD8CF72DCA; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB2EB72DBF; Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:44:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Steve Shorter In-Reply-To: <20040331192110.GA1806@nomad.lets.net> Message-ID: <20040405204314.V82596@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20040331192110.GA1806@nomad.lets.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless machine - getdevs: error getting device stats X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 03:44:20 -0000 On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Steve Shorter wrote: > Howdy! > > I have some diskless machines that boot using PXE and mount > data over NFS. They are truly diskless. When I run > vmstat (or similarly systat -vm) I get > > vmstat: getdevs: error getting device stats > getdevs: Invalid argument I'm going to guess that your world and kernel are out of sync. Make sure you've built the userland tools and the kernel were built from the same code base. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org