top failure

[Jonathan Chen]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 02:40:37AM +0100, RMH wrote:
> Hello gentlemen,
> 
> I've discovered an interesting failure on some machine running
> 4.7. It's so weird so I'd very unlikely notice it at all, but
> thanks to top(1): when launched, instead of displaying some
> useful figures it exits with an error: "top: nlist failed".

It's in the FAQ:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#NLIST-FAILED

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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