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From: wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0 Release and netstat
Date: 27 Nov 1994 17:58:48 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Steve Froeschke
(steve@cg57.esnet.com) had the courage to say:
: I just obtained and installed FreeBSD 2.0 (Release) and have run across
: a problem in netstat. Everything seems to be working, routing, named,
: etc., but, when issuing a netstat (or netstat with any switches), I
: get the following error:
: netstat: kvm_read kvm_read: Bad address
: This is with the IPFIREWALL kernel running. The only changes in the
: kernel I made were to delete hardware/controllers not in the system.
: (i.e. SCSI, PCI, etc).
: We're using a NE2000 board (ed1).
: I tried recompiling the libkvm library, no change.
: Again, everything is running fine, except for netstat. (which would
: be nice to have!) :-)
: Any ideas?
: Steve
Try this:
0) Become root.
1) Make sure /proc is mounted. If it isn't then either you took it out of
/etc/fstab or you didn't define 'options PROCFS' when you configured
your new kernel.
2) type: dev_mkdb
3) type: kvm_mkdb
If kvm_mkdb exits quickly, then it didn't work: remove /var/db/kvm_kernel.db
and run kvm_mkdb again. Don't be alarmed if it takes a little while: it
takes about 20 seconds to complete on my machine.
Now try netstat again. If it still doesn't work, then clearly the phase of
the moon is wrong.
-Bill
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