On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, 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:

I've a similair mess of things :)

> 
> 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).

Top works fine, you need to recompile it from the package system.  You
also need to edit/creste /etc/mk.conf with the line UVM=YES in.

> 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 seem to have more of them, I think it's the compilation that causes the
panic, although I don't know, the panic is normally on a pagefault, using
a kernel compiled from -current last weekend makes little difference.

Cheers,
Chris