Timothy Coltman wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using a combination of 1.3-alpha, 1.3.2 and the UVM snapshots. It
> seems to work fine(ish) apart from the following:
> 
> 1. top doesn't work. It complains about something called _cnt when doing
> a _kvm_read (or similar, anyway, it won't work). I've rebuilt the kvm.db
> file using kvm_mkdb and it doesn't make the slightest difference. I've
> noticed that top is in /usr/local/bin and the snapshots don't include
> (AFAIK) this directory. Is this the problem? Can I fix top by just
> recompiling it again, and if so, will it compile properly? (I've tried to
> compile top and xosview (which I think includes bits of top) and they
> don't work).
> 
Yes recompiling should work fine providing you do it from the packages system.
I'vegot no idea how well things work from the standard top distribution.

> 2. I get a lot more kernel panics, notably when I change virtual
> consoles: this morning, I was compiling the KDE games package and
> configuring the KDE graphics package and I pressed ALT-F2 to see how the
> config was going and I got a lovely kernel panic. This is the third time
> it's happened since yesterday afternoon. Suggestions, anyone?
>
I had that happen once.I'm probably more inclined to blame the console code
than UVM since the system is rock solid under much heavier loads than before.
I haven't had much problem with this since I tend to use telnet or xterms
rather than using the console.

Mike