Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:33:57 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top in PicoBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0103221831240.78054-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103221628120.27582-100000@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > > > > If I remember well, this dependancy was removed in -current, but I would > > > > strongly advise against using -current right now... :-/ The fixes required > > > > some changes in the sysctl tree as well, so you can't just get -current > > > > top(1) sources and recompile them on -stable box... > > > > > > Thanks! But actually I only boot from floppy and then export the whole > > > /usr from FreeBSD server. So, whether in this case the problem is really > > > in the library, not in the PicoBSD kernel? I have the error message: > > > > > > top: nlist failed > > > > Top, in that unfixed version, has to be able to access physical, > > unstripped /kernel binary which corresponds to the running kernel, in > > order to divine the formats and addresses of the variables it wants to > > access (this is what libkvm does in the background). > > Well, but sorry I do not understand why libkvm does not do it on PicoBSD > when I run top? Why other dynamic libraries are loaded (e.g., I run X from > exported /usr) but not libkvm? Read again carefully the above paragraph I wrote: libkvm depends on the accessibility of the file that contains unstripped, ungzipped binary image of the running kernel. You don't have it in the standard versions of PicoBSD. Ergo: libkvm fails to work properly. Andrzej // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, Chief System Architect // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // <abial@freebsd.org> FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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