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Date:      Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:08:17 +0100
From:      John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.8 ipfilter ruleset compatibility question
Message-ID:  <n3u39vo426brghnv4rao87goan07otr97i@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030407122013.92408.qmail@mx.tele-kom.ru>
References:  <20030407122013.92408.qmail@mx.tele-kom.ru>

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DoubleF <doublef@tele-kom.ru> wrote:

>> > > Not sure if it's related but I've just tried top again:
>> > > wall# top
>> > > top: nlist failed
>> >=20
>> > Things like this usually happen if your kernel is out of sync with =
your
>> > userland.  "ps" is probably also broken if you're out of sync.
>> > - jim
>>=20
>> IMHO, the "/boot/loader" and "boot[012]" are out of sync with the
>> kernel. When I updated 4.4 to 4.7, it was the same thing.
>> (Re?)installing these boot tools fixed it.
>
>Hope this doesn't sound like a stupid tip: if during boot you see the
>string like
>	/kernel: text=3D..., data=3D..., ...
>with "syms=3D..." in it, the loader is sane. Otherwise - punish him;)

Useful, I'll look out for that.  The box is headless though so I don't
see that stage very often.  I was probably running kernel.GENERIC at the
time when top failed (with rc.conf trying to do ipfilter things), and I'd
loaded it by interrupting the countdown.  But absolutely nothing other =
than
configuration files came from the old installation, so the world
(as I understand it) couldn't have been out of sync.

Thanks
John.



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