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From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] namelist hassles
Date: 2 Sep 92 10:00:19
Organization: Kansas State University
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Message-ID: <BRTMAC.92Sep2100020@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
References: <1992Sep2.094811.17592@hippo.ru.ac.za>
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In-reply-to: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za's message of Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:48:11 GMT
In article <1992Sep2.094811.17592@hippo.ru.ac.za> ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) writes:
>Several programs on 386bsd-0.1 produce namelist error messages - what
>does one do to fix this? I've done a pretty vanilla install of
>{bin,src,etc}dist on a 560 Mb SCSI, 8 Mb RAM 386, and am far from being
>a bsd expert.
>
>For example:
>
>netstat (the one referred to in the FAQ) produces "filehead or nfiles
>not in namelist"
>
>netstat -r produces "rthashsize: symbol not in namelist"
>
>ps -aux produces "ps: nlist: can't find the following symbols: _fscale
>_avail_start _avail_end:
The kernel that comes with the distribution is stripped so you can't
get any of the names from it. You need to compile a new kernel and
install it and reboot. From then on it should work fine.
++Brett;