Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:56:07 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Rob <rpd@core.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top: nlist failed Message-ID: <20000820145607.A78863@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <000701c00a9f$0da57940$412c28d0@mencken>; from rpd@core.com on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:06:19AM -0700 References: <000701c00a9f$0da57940$412c28d0@mencken>
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 05:06:19AM -0700, Rob wrote: > Dear "questions," > > I have an aggravating problem involving FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE (a problem > that began under 4.0-RELEASE). Basically, I can't run any of my memory- > related system tools, such as `top', `swapinfo', or `vmstat'. > > $ top > top: nlist failed > $ swapinfo > swapinfo: undefined symbol: _numvnodes > $ vmstat > vmstat: undefined symbols: > _cp_time _kmemstatistics _bucket _zlist > > At this point, you are probably thinking that I upgraded my kernel > without the utilities. But I just upgraded from 4.0-RELEASE to > 4.1-RELEASE (kernel and system) and the problem is still there. > > Originally, under 4.0-RELEASE, everything had been working fine. Then > one day, all of a sudden, those problems cropped up. I had rebuilt my > kernel from source, so I thought I might have accidentally pulled > something other than 4.0-RELEASE kernel sources from the cvsup server. > Rather than doing a `make world', I used the `/stand/sysinstall' method > to do a binary upgrade to 4.1-RELEASE, which otherwise works fine. > > What's going on here? Any help would be greatly appreciated. > I had exactly the same problems after upgrading a machine from 3.4 to 4.1-stable. On this machine I had used the file /boot.config to load the kernel directly instead of letting loader(8) do it. When I removed that file (and rebooted) things worked correctly. I don't know why this worked in my case but it did. (If that is not the cause of your problem I am afraid I can't help you.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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