From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 3:29:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADAC37B6C0 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 03:29:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12cQa0-000MgG-00; Tue, 04 Apr 2000 12:29:04 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Bernd Luevelsmeyer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nlist failed in 4.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Apr 2000 05:18:29 +0200." <38E95F05.CCD9D532@heitec.net> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 12:29:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87187.954844144@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 05:18:29 +0200, Bernd Luevelsmeyer wrote: > when starting 'top' or 'systat' on FreeBSD 4.0, they fail with 'top: > nlist failed' or 'systat: nlist: can't find following symbols: _cp_time > _ccpu _fscale'. They fail whether I'm root or not. Either you've already had this question answered, or you're asking a recently asked question almost verbatim. :-) I believe that the problem is in loading the kernel directly, instead of using the boot loader. In other words, at the boot prompt you're doing something like load /kernel instead of something like load /boot/loader Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message