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Date:      Sun, 3 Dec 2000 06:17:14 -0500 (EST)
From:      Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        Spades <spades@galaxynet.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: top: nlist failed 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012030614300.34466-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012022336.eB2Na7J26177@ptavv.es.net>

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Dont you need to do  'make installworld' before you compile a new kernel
since  you want the new kernel to be compiled with the latest system
files. 


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On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 09:40:38 +0800
> > From: Spades <spades@galaxynet.org>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > 
> > I installed a 30G hard drive and cvsup'd to 4.2-Stable
> > When i do top , i get this below
> > 
> > $ top
> > top: nlist failed
> 
> As other have reported, userland and the kernel are out of sync. See
> /usr/src/UPDATING for details on this. Loosely:
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel KERNEL=your_kernel_name
> make installkernel KERNEL=yourkernel_name
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> 
> The final two items should be done in single user mode followed by a
> reboot.  And always check the UPDATING file for other possible
> steps/gotchas any time you cvsup.
> 
> > My partitions are:
> > /	9G
> > /home	6G
> > /home1	5G
> > /usr	2G
> > /var	1G
> > swap	512M
> 
> This is very odd! / is usually 50-100 MB. 9GB is MUCH bigger than is
> needed. I'd use that about 2 GB of that space to expand /usr, although
> 2G is probably adequate, it can fade fast if you build many ports. I'd
> put some in my /home and /home1 partitions, too. But this has nothing
> to do with the nlist error you are seeing.
> 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
> 
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