From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 11:20:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE1937B405 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:20:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.137.225.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.137.225]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16187; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f7NIKee82767; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:20:40 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Bsd Newbie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dmesg problem Message-ID: <20010823112040.B81976@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20010823101725.30659.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010823101725.30659.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:17:25AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:17:25AM -0700, Bsd Newbie wrote: > > I never had a problem with "dmesg" when I first installed FreeBSD 4.3 on > my system. Ever since I recompiled the kernel, I started getting the > following error message when I try using the "dmesg" command: > > dmesg: sysctl kern.msgbuf: No such file or directory > > I've tried the command from both my normal user account and as root. > > Can anyone tell me how I can resolve this problem? It sounds like your world and kernel are out of sync. Did you update your kernel source before building? The world and kernel should both be built from the same, consistent source code. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message