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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Top causes Segmentation Fault?
Date: 20 Nov 1996 21:02:46 -0000
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In article <56mjsv$b4a@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: Charlie ROOT <root@jimbob.cococo.net> wrote:
:
>> I have just started using FreeBSD, but I am having an intermittent
>> problem when I try to run the program top, it runs fine for the most part,
>> but last night, it caused a segmentation fault everytime I tried to run
>> it
:
: Are you running some sort of -current or 2.2-SNAP system? If so,
: please make sure that your top binary matches the system. top digs
: deep into kernel data structures, hence it must be rebuild everytime
: one of the affected kernel header files is changed. The ports/
: packages mechanism is inappropriate to handle this particular case.
The packages certainly don't handle things, but I've not had problems
with the top port in 2.1.0-R, 2.1.5-R, 2.2-960323, 2.2-960801 or
2.2-96101[04] (the 960323 one's from memory). Perhaps if the poster
is sup'ing the 2.2 code they may have "ports" problems.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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