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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 19:32:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
To:        Paul Schiro <tribble@tribble.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hi!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005171932300.29933-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171723050.45590-100000@flux.tribble.net>

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cd /usr/src/lib/libkvm
make clean
make
make install

Those 4 commands should do it...

On Wed, 17 May 2000, Paul Schiro wrote:

> 
> hey there... I've been with FreeBSD since 2.1.5 and loving it ever since
> :)  props to jordan and all of you guys and gals that make this project
> the beautiful thing that it is
> 
> that said, i believe this is the first time i've mailed questions@
> i'm just stumped on this one...
> 
> my 4.0 box at work is on really flaky hardware that very much needs to be
> replaced... i've had it spontaneously reset on me.  seems to recover
> pretty well from it, but i'm getting something i've never ever seen
> before:
> 
> -= snip =-
> neutron:[~]> ps
> ps: proc size mismatch (25152 total, 1044 chunks)
> 
> neutron:[~]> top
> kvm_open: proc size mismatch (54496 total, 1044 chunks)
> top: Out of memory.
> 
> neutron:[~]> w
>  5:26PM  up  1:04, 7 users, load averages: 0.17, 0.08, 0.07
> USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> w: proc size mismatch (54496 total, 1044 chunks): Undefined error: 0
> -= snip =-
> 
> are a few examples.  i suppose utmp or procfs or some such thing just got
> corrupted from the machine crashing while a process was writing to them
> possibly...
> 
> my questions:
> 
> 1) do you know what specifically is causing this?
> 
> 2) is there a way i can rebuild whatever file(s) got corrupted so i can be
> able to use ps and other such essential things agian?
> 
> Thanks much in advance!
> 
> Regards,
> Paul Schiro
> <tribble@tribble.net>
> http://www.tribble.net/
> 
> "Those who don't know UNIX are doomed to reinvent it... Poorly..."
> 
> p.s. yes i know my signature isn't very original ;)  but i dig it
> 
> 
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