[FreeBSD6] kinfo_size mismatch

Laurent C laurent.bar at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 09:37:28 GMT 2005


2005/11/19, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>:
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:38:29PM +0100, Laurent wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > %uname -a
> > FreeBSD wks02.chez.oim 6.0-STABLE Thu Nov 17 19:40:44 CET 2005 amd64
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> The last time you asked this question I answered it, but I didn't see
> any response. Didn't you like my answer? :-)

 Ho I'm sorry, I've first posted my question to stable at freebsd.org instead
of freebsd-stable at freebsd.org, but it seems my message arrived at the same
place. Sorry for this double-post.
 And yes I like your answer. I tried a portugrade -fua but I had problem
with pkgdb base consistency after some port upgrades, with pkgdb taking a
long time each port to rebuild is database. So my ports are not up-to-date.
 Lets go for redoing all...
 Tank you late for your answer.
 --
Laurent


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