Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 06:17:14 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Spades <spades@galaxynet.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top: nlist failed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012030614300.34466-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com> In-Reply-To: <200012022336.eB2Na7J26177@ptavv.es.net>
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Dont you need to do 'make installworld' before you compile a new kernel since you want the new kernel to be compiled with the latest system files. FreeBSD - The BEST upgrade you can do to NT! On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 09:40:38 +0800 > > From: Spades <spades@galaxynet.org> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > I installed a 30G hard drive and cvsup'd to 4.2-Stable > > When i do top , i get this below > > > > $ top > > top: nlist failed > > As other have reported, userland and the kernel are out of sync. See > /usr/src/UPDATING for details on this. Loosely: > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNEL=your_kernel_name > make installkernel KERNEL=yourkernel_name > make installworld > mergemaster > > The final two items should be done in single user mode followed by a > reboot. And always check the UPDATING file for other possible > steps/gotchas any time you cvsup. > > > My partitions are: > > / 9G > > /home 6G > > /home1 5G > > /usr 2G > > /var 1G > > swap 512M > > This is very odd! / is usually 50-100 MB. 9GB is MUCH bigger than is > needed. I'd use that about 2 GB of that space to expand /usr, although > 2G is probably adequate, it can fade fast if you build many ports. I'd > put some in my /home and /home1 partitions, too. But this has nothing > to do with the nlist error you are seeing. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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