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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.texoma.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Top causes Segmentation Fault? Date: 17 Nov 1996 08:54:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <56mjsv$b4a@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961113130602.796A-100000@jimbob.cococo.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Charlie ROOT <root@jimbob.cococo.net> wrote: > I have just started using FreeBSD, but I am having an intermittent > problem when I try to run the program top, it runs fine for the most part, > but last night, it caused a segmentation fault everytime I tried to run > it Are you running some sort of -current or 2.2-SNAP system? If so, please make sure that your top binary matches the system. top digs deep into kernel data structures, hence it must be rebuild everytime one of the affected kernel header files is changed. The ports/ packages mechanism is inappropriate to handle this particular case. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)