top: nlist failed

Chern Lee chern at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 30 03:29:36 PDT 2004



On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Doug White wrote:

> 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? :)

Of course:
-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  32360 Aug 24 19:59 /usr/bin/top
-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  16324 Aug 24 19:59 /usr/bin/vmstat
-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  65436 Aug 24 19:59 /usr/bin/systat

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

$ which top
/usr/bin/top

Thanks,

- chern

>
> Also make sure there isn't a rogue set of binaries somewhere.
>
> --
> Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> dwhite at gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org
>


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