>Number:         20915
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       ps won't work against dead current kernels, libkvm out of date
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 27 20:09:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     TheMan
>Release:        1.6Q as of 20030325, kernel and userland
>Organization:
none
>Environment:

System: NetBSD this 1.6Q NetBSD 1.6Q (THAT) #172: Thu Mar 27 10:39:51 EST 2003
andrew@this:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/THAT i386

>Description:

my laptop panicked (see kern/20914) and once i made enough space for
the dump (see bin/20913), i tried to run ps on the dead kernel to find
out what pid 686 was.  ps said:

	ps: _deadproc: no such symbol: Undefined error: 0

nm /netbsd | grep deadproc says that it's now deadprocs, so i changed
libkvm to look for that instead and then ps gave me output.  i think
that's probably very wrong, though (the change, not the output), so i
changed it back and filed this pr.

>How-To-Repeat:

crash.  savecore.  run ps at the corpse.

>Fix:

i can change "_deadproc" to "_deadprocs" in libkvm, but i suspect
there's a lot more work to it than that.  besides, it would be nice
not to lose the ability to read older crash dumps with a newer libkvm,
so we really need support for both.
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