From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 2:36:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D312F37B42C for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 02:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.9.3/1.13) id MAA95538; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:34:24 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:34:24 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: David Goddard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Machine-specific errors with top and uemacs Message-ID: <20000821123424.C91965@sunbay.com> Mail-Followup-To: David Goddard , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3.0.3.32.20000820105701.0085f100@dmg.parse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000820105701.0085f100@dmg.parse.net>; from goddard@acm.org on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 10:57:01AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 10:57:01AM +0100, David Goddard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having some problems getting the top utility to run on a particular > machine (a self-built PII). I initially did a binary install of 4.0 from > the CD, which worked fine except for top, which returned: > > top: nlist failed > > I then upgraded the machine to a recent verion of STABLE from cvsupped > source, rebuilt the kernel etc. and tried top again. I'm still getting the > same error. Another FreeBSD box built from the exact same source code has > no problems, so I think it's specific to the machine itself. > > Initially, I thought it was some sort of not rebuilding the kernel after an > installworld type thing, but I've rebuilt the kernel several times now :-( > > The only other thing which doesn't work properly on the affected box is > uemacs, which will always core dump when trying to open a file: > > elf% uemacs Makefile > [Function key window ON]Segmentation fault(core dumped) > elf% > > (uemacs will actually launch fine if no argument is provided, but falls > over when trying to access a file) > > Again, this was a problem with both the original 4.0 install and the > rebuilt system. > > Does anyone have any pointers or tips for how I can diagnose the problem > for myself? > If you do not use loader(8) on that machine, take a look at PR 17422. -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message