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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: -current w/ps problem
Date: 27 Jun 1995 17:04:38 -0500
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Message-ID: <3spv9m$o1o@Mars.mcs.com>
References: <3spq4e$f58@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
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In article <3spq4e$f58@solaris.cc.vt.edu>,
Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org> wrote:
> I just installed current here (via the binary snapshot)
>to see if it would fix some problems we were having with NetBSD.
>It did, but it introduced a new little bug. w and ps both
>report a size mismatch and will not display information. They
>both work fine with the generic kernel, but not with any I
>build. The kernels I have built have been the generic kernel with
>some of the stuff we don't use taken out (IDE controller, mice,
>ethernet drivers, etc). Anyone seen this problem before?
>Know how to fix it?
If I remember correctly the ps and w command rely on the size of some
kernel structures to work. This means that you have to change ps and
w commands if you've changed the revision of the kernel that you are
running.
C.
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Christopher Sean Hilton E-mail: chilton@mcs.com
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