On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Peter Abrahamsen wrote:

>   I recently installed netbsd (1.2.1, I believe, and a pretty recent kernel)
> on my iisi (fpu, 16mb RAM). It works fine, starts up, etc etc, but I have a
> problem. You see, whenever I run ps (with no command options or anything), it
> says this:
> ps: proc size mismatch (8568 total, 648 chunks)
> any idea what could be the problem? I think it does this, even before running
> any commands... oh, and also, where might I get pico? vi is driving me INSANE
> :)

Get an updated copy of the base tarball (-current) to match your kernel.
Several binaries like ps and top and stuff are very dependent on the
kernel version.  You can find then on ftp.netbsd.org in the -current
section (I forget the exact path).

> I forgot to send the above yesterday, and now I have a new problem...
> When I start up, it kicks me out with the following:
> pdma in: cnt = 118267904 (0x70ca000) (pending cnt 8192)
> Panic: Something is wrong
> Stopped at _debugger+0x6 : unlk a6

Ick.  Not positive, but I'm guessing that's pdma SCSI.  Are you using an
sbc kernel? Try ncrscsi. Using NCRSCSI? try sbc.


Later,
David

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