From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 17:57:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C6037B5EC for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 17:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4O1VWV05058; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:31:32 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Damian Gerow Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proc size mismatch Message-ID: <20000523183132.P28097@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <381802713.959127895147.JavaMail.root@web421-mc.mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <381802713.959127895147.JavaMail.root@web421-mc.mail.com>; from dgerow@mad.scientist.com on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 08:24:55PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Damian Gerow [000523 17:59] wrote: > If I have sent this to the wrong list (i.e. it should have gone to > freebsd-newbies), I apologize. I am not clear on which list this should go > to, as I am still a FreeBSD newbie (although I know Linux fairly well, so > I've got a fairly good start). > > I am installing 4.0-RELEASE as a firewall, and am having some problems with > my kernel and the proc filesystem. I have enabled FFS, FFS_ROOT, KERNFS, > and PROCFS in the configuration files, but whenever I try to read a file > from the /proc filesystem, I get a "proc size mismatch" error (the exact > sizes I don't recall). Should there be another filesystem enabled? I'm > running an IDE system on a P150 with 16MB of RAM, some old 512K video card, > no floppy ir CD-ROM, and an NE2000 compat card (ed0) and Intel EtherExpress > Pro/100 card (fxp0) for network. > > I was wondering if anyone could help me out on this. If it is requesteed > that I post my conf file, I will. Thanks - it's really been giving me > grief. This usually means you've upgraded your kernel source and compiled and installed without updating your userland. what does 'uname -a' say? and have you read: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html ? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message