Subject: Re: Notes on Current
To: Marc Wandschneider <storm@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: None <Mark_Weaver@brown.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/21/1993 12:38:02
Marc Wandschneider <storm@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
>         However, I now have run into another weird problem---certain
>         programs just don't work any more...
> 
>         w, and ps -u generate floating exceptions.
> 
>         vmstat, iostat, and swapinfo no longer work, with the following
>         errors

This kind of thing happens if the kernel you are running isn't called
"/netbsd".  That's because programs like these read the kernel file
symbol information to find the addresses of certain kernel globals.

	Mark
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