From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 15 10:50:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E41116A4CE for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 10:50:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nativenerds.com (host-70-0-111-24.midco.net [24.111.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04A343DAB for ; Sun, 15 May 2005 10:50:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Received: from [192.168.1.89] (host-133-35-230-24.midco.net [24.230.35.133]) j4FB3oU7009845; Sun, 15 May 2005 05:03:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Message-ID: <428729AE.9020302@nativenerds.com> Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 04:51:26 -0600 From: Ed Stover Organization: Native Nerds User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050503) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry Bell References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050510195910.03994fd0@office.compudoc.za.org> <1841.209.134.164.17.1115752323.squirrel@209.134.164.17> In-Reply-To: <1841.209.134.164.17.1115752323.squirrel@209.134.164.17> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.nativenerds.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Godfrey Hamshire Subject: Re: ps: bad namelist X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: estover@nativenerds.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 10:50:46 -0000 Jerry Bell wrote: > Typically this is caused by a kernel and utilities (like ps and w) being > out of sync. It sounds like you don't think that is the case, though. I > suppose it could be a problem with your procfs, but I'm not sure that > would cause this kind of symptom. My suspicion is still on > inconsistencies between the kernel and "world". > >>ps: bad namelist >>w: bad namelist > > > > Jerry > http://www.syslog.org > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Ok, try the command "uptime" as well, I bet it will error too. It was a while ago I have had this same problem..... I remember I had to remake a /dev/file ... maybe it was /dev/null ... remake /dev/null and see if that clears it up. Try this .. # cd /dev # rm null # mknod null c 2 2 # chmod 666 null