From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 13:56:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC8D37B422 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 13:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f3MKuQY48551; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:56:26 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:56:25 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: tmoore Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps an w fail Message-ID: <20010423085625.C47279@itouchnz.itouch> References: <000b01c0c957$83d13ec0$d47dcad8@ventecc2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000b01c0c957$83d13ec0$d47dcad8@ventecc2.com>; from tmoore@rapidsys.com on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:05:22AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:05:22AM -0400, tmoore wrote: > I am running 4.2-STABLE and noticed when I logged into one of my boxes > that w and ps is not working any more with the following error. > > (~)[6]# ps > ps: bad namelist > > I seem to remember this problem in the list a long time ago but I can’t > seem to find it in the archives any help with this will be appreciated. If you're using 4-STABLE, you have to make sure that userland and kernel are in sync. Looks like you didn't upgrade your systems user-binaries when you rebuilt your kernel. -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by" - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message