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From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] namelist hassles
Message-ID: <1992Sep2.150438.23098@nrao.edu>
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:04:38 GMT
References: <1992Sep2.094811.17592@hippo.ru.ac.za>
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In article 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:

If you haven't done it already, you should rebuild the kernel.  The version
on the distribution floppy has been stripped (so it doesn't have any symbols
in it at all).

	Chris Flatters
	cflatter@nrao.edu