netstat errors after upgrading 4.9 -> 5.3

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Sun May 1 01:52:49 PDT 2005


On Sun, 1 May 2005, 01:08-0700, Tomasz Konefal wrote:

> Eric W. Bates wrote:
> > [sigh] I have created the same problem on 2 machines.
> >
> > After an upgrade from 4.x to 5.3-p10 netstat will no longer display the
> > routing table:
> >
> > ** root at fw ** ~ ** Fri Apr 29 16:59:37
> > # netstat -nr
> > netstat: kvm not available
> > Routing tables
> > rt_tables: symbol not in namelist
> >
> > During the upgrade, I deleted all of /usr/src/*.  And followed the rest of
> > the procedures outlined in /usr/src/UPGRADING.  I have also deleted /kernel*
> > and /modules* (random thot that perhaps the wrong kvm's were being loaded).
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the netstat dump of the routing tables is the only
> > failure.
>
> i have these exact same symptoms on a box i recently upgraded from 5.2.1 to
> 5.4-RC3.  admittedly, i don't know whether netstat worked on 5.2.1, but that
> was a fresh install with only the security updates applied.

IIRC you need

mem_load="YES"
io_load="YES"

in /boot/loader.conf or the appropriate devices compiled in your
kernel.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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