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...TABLE, and it's a miserable snowy weekend in Seattle right now, so I decided I'd take this opportunity to update my system to the latest 7-STABLE and get rid of those old libraries properly this time. Now sysutils/wmmemmon and sysutils/wmcpuload stopped working. Both die with: kvm_open: kvm_nlist: No such file or directory error extracting symbols I found two PRs for other ports (ascpu and wmcube-gdk) to fix similar problems, but they seem to be related to 8-CURRENT. The solution in both of these cases is to use sysctls instead of using kvm. PR numbers are 119923 and 120142. My questio...

...39;ve discovered an interesting failure on some machine running 4.7. It's so weird so I'd very unlikely notice it at all, but thanks to top(1): when launched, instead of displaying some useful figures it exits with an error: "top: nlist failed". >From quick look it appears that kvm_nlist() returns NULL for nlst[0].n_type. Strange, ignoring; next exit point is: "top: kvm_read for _ccpu: Bad address" Something bad happens: kernel virtual memory symbol table becomes unreadable, so kvm calls fail... But system runs all right, has completed buildworld today... Source of the p...