top: nlist failed

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Sun Aug 29 18:02:31 PDT 2004


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Chern Lee wrote:

> I recently upgraded a machine to 4.10-RELEASE-p2 from a fresh /usr/src from
> cvsup.
>
> $ top
> top: nlist failed
>
> $ systat
>            systat: nlist: can't find following symbols:
>            _ccpu
>            _fscale
>
> $ vmstat
> vmstat: undefined symbols:
>   _kmemstatistics _bucket _zlist
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD host3 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Aug 24 19:46:34
> PDT 2004     chern at host3:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOST3  i386
>
> I've taken a look at:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#NLIST-FAILED
>
> and ruled out the first problem since the kernel and world are being compiled
> from the same branch/date.
>
> Any ideas?

Did you install kernel and world? :)

Also make sure there isn't a rogue set of binaries somewhere.

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