[FreeBSD6] kinfo_size mismatch

[Laurent C]

2005/11/19, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org>:
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Laurent wrote:
>
> > I've recently upgraded my AMD64 FreeBSD station from 5.4 to 6.0 using
> > the handbook method.
> >
> > Everything seems to work OK but I have the message after repeating every
> > second on tty1 after I log on X :
> >
> > kvm_open : kinfo_proc size mismatch (expected 912 got 1088).
> >
> > After some search on Internet I gave an eye to /usr/src/sys/sys/user.h
> > for kinfo_proc_size values, but the right value (1088) is already set
> > for amd64.
> >
> > So I don't know how to solve this problem, and I'm quite afraid to touch
> > some souce code on my system.
>
> This is almost certainly a mismatch between the kernel version and a
> monitoring tool that is trying to inspect kernel state (specifically,
> retrieve process lists). If your buildworld/installworld doesn't match
> your kernel version, then you need to rebuild and make sure everything is
> in sync. If it does, it's probably a third-party package that is out of
> sync and needs updating.

 Ok, I will try to buildworld and builkernel again after a fresh cvsup. But
for "third party packages" do you mean the "port tree", becouse I though
that base system and ports were completely separated and can be also
upgraded separately.
 Thanks for your reply,
 --
Laurent