Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:22:59 +0100 From: Laurent C <laurent.bar@gmail.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD6] kinfo_size mismatch Message-ID: <e92de5ef0511210122h38486b35g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051119180128.X82553@fledge.watson.org> References: <437F6315.4000403@gmail.com> <20051119180128.X82553@fledge.watson.org>
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2005/11/19, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>: > > > On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Laurent wrote: > > > I've recently upgraded my AMD64 FreeBSD station from 5.4 to 6.0 using > > the handbook method. > > > > Everything seems to work OK but I have the message after repeating ever= y > > second on tty1 after I log on X : > > > > kvm_open : kinfo_proc size mismatch (expected 912 got 1088). > > > > After some search on Internet I gave an eye to /usr/src/sys/sys/user.h > > for kinfo_proc_size values, but the right value (1088) is already set > > for amd64. > > > > So I don't know how to solve this problem, and I'm quite afraid to touc= h > > some souce code on my system. > > This is almost certainly a mismatch between the kernel version and a > monitoring tool that is trying to inspect kernel state (specifically, > retrieve process lists). If your buildworld/installworld doesn't match > your kernel version, then you need to rebuild and make sure everything is > in sync. If it does, it's probably a third-party package that is out of > sync and needs updating. Ok, I will try to buildworld and builkernel again after a fresh cvsup. But for "third party packages" do you mean the "port tree", becouse I though that base system and ports were completely separated and can be also upgraded separately. Thanks for your reply, -- Laurent
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