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Date:      Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:46:27 -0500
From:      Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
To:        Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: top and ps fail on 6.0-BETA5
Message-ID:  <433485C3.1010408@makeworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050923183340.GE2474@polands.org>
References:  <20050923183340.GE2474@polands.org>

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Doug Poland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've noticed that top and ps are failing on my recently re-built
> 6.0-BETA5 box.  Ordinarilly that means that the "world" and the "kernel"
> are out of sync.  However, I've cvsup'd and rebuilt and installed world
> and GENERIC (several times).  
> 
> Yesterday I rebuilt all my ports and today did a fresh
> cvsup/rebuild/install.  Still seeing the message:
> 
> djp@ammon% top
> kvm_open: kinfo_proc size mismatch (expected 648, got 768)
> top: Out of memory.
> 
> Here's uname: 
> 
>   FreeBSD ammon.polands.org 6.0-BETA5 FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 #0: Fri Sep 23 12:07:46 CDT 2005 djp@ammon.polands.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> /usr/src/UPDATING says:
> 20050609:
>         Changes were made to kinfo_proc in sys/user.h.  Please recompile
>         userland, or commands like `fstat', `pkill', `ps', `top' and `w'
>         will not behave correctly.
> 
>         The API and ABI for hwpmc(4) have changed with the addition
>         of sampling support.  Please recompile lib/libpmc(3) and
>         usr.sbin/{pmcstat,pmccontrol}
> 
> 
> I've googled the lists but have found nothing on this.  I must be doing
> something wrong.  
> 

I think the issue lies in the order you do things AFTER you cvsup the
src tree.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

If the assumptions are wrong,
the conclusions aren't likely to be very good.



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