Subject: Re: 1.3.2 distribution /bin/ps pukes with NetBSD-1.3I
To: J. Maynard Gelinas <maynard@jmg.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/10/1999 10:36:22
	As a general rule when you update your kernel aything using libkvm
	may break. For a good explanation see
	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/faq/faq-10.html#ss10.11

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:

> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:14:09 -0500
> From: J. Maynard Gelinas <maynard@jmg.com>
> To: port-sun3@netbsd.org
> Subject: 1.3.2 distribution /bin/ps pukes with NetBSD-1.3I 
> 
>      Hi folks,
>      I just found some free time to D/L the 1.3.2 distribution and untar it
> over my older NetBSD3x installation and proceeded to grab sys.tar.gz from
> NetBSD-current/tar_files[...].  With a few tries I even got it to compile!
> Actually, I don't think I did anything wrong with my previous compilation
> attempts - even a generic distribution kernel seems to leak memory during
> general use and will just start dumping core at the shell prompt for every
> program invoked after a time.  I can accept that, it just means rebooting
> the box right before compiling a kernel (or anything else large).  Maybe
> it's time I built a gcc 68k cross compiler on my x86 box. <g>  
> 
>      Anyway, I just installed this new kernel and am getting strange 
> errors from ps.  Do I need to upgrade my tools again?  Have the 
> development kernels diverged in compatibility from the base 1.3.2 
> distribution?
> 
> netbsd1# which ps
> /bin/ps
> netbsd1# ps
> ps: proc size mismatch (8580 total, 616 chunks)
> netbsd1# dmesg
> 
> NetBSD 1.3I (GEN3x_COLOR) #0: Sun Jan 10 05:39:47 EST 1999
>     root@netbsd1:/usr/src/sys/arch/sun3/compile/GEN3x_COLOR
> Model: Sun-3X (3/80)
> fpu: mc68882
> real  mem = 8192K (0x800000)
> avail mem = 6112K (0x5f8000)
> [...]
> 
> TIA,
> --jmg
> 

		David/absolute

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