Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:47:00 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Lew Payne <lew@lppi.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.1.1.-REL : "bad namelist" Message-ID: <20001112184700.A833@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <AJEIJCKLKNEGNKHKJJAFKEGBCAAA.lew@lppi.com>; from lew@lppi.com on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:52:57PM -0800 References: <AJEIJCKLKNEGNKHKJJAFKEGBCAAA.lew@lppi.com>
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:52:57PM -0800, Lew Payne wrote:
>
> I have several FreeBSD 4.1.1-REL systems that I've installed
> from scratch. Two are NFS servers, and eight are NFS clients.
>
> For some reason, my process list seems to disappear... I don't
> know what's causing it, and I don't claim that NFS is suspect.
> But this has happened to me on more than one machine already.
>
> Can someone please tell me how to solve the "bad namelist"
> problem, without reinstalling the system from scratch??
>
> I already tried re-genning the kernel, just in case some kernel
> structure was not where "ps" and such expected it, but that did
> not fix the problem. HELP... please !!
You mention having recompiled your kernel; did you recompile
only the kernel, or the whole system ('world') too? Sometimes,
just sometimes, you can get away with booting a new kernel with
the old world binaries, but what you describe is a clear indication
of why you should not generally try that - there have been some
changes in system structures, and your old ps cannot handle your
new kernel's structures.
See /usr/src/UPDATING for information on how to rebuild the system.
Generally it's something as simple as running mergemaster, then
(in /usr/src) doing a make buildworld buildkernel installkernel installworld,
but you should read the guidelines anyway :)
HTH!
G'luck,
Peter
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