From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 3:17:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from joe.pythonvideo.com (joe.pythonvideo.com [209.226.29.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FC637B400 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 03:17:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (joe@localhost) by joe.pythonvideo.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB3BHEb34493; Sun, 3 Dec 2000 06:17:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from joe@advancewebhosting.com) X-Authentication-Warning: joe.pythonvideo.com: joe owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 06:17:14 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro X-Sender: joe@joe.pythonvideo.com To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Spades , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top: nlist failed In-Reply-To: <200012022336.eB2Na7J26177@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > 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