On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 04:24:20PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:17:57 +0200
> > From: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Varshavchick Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> >      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: lsof and listening processes on 4.5
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:13:55PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote:
> > > Of cause, I recompiled lsof for 4.5. But now it seems to be more likely a
> > > some general problem with the system, because the command
> > > 
> > >   sockstat -4 -l
> > > 
> > > doesn't print anything either. What can it be...?
> > 
> > Just as a guess: you did not update your 'world' sources, then forgot
> > to reboot with a new kernel, did you?  At some point, a slight ABI
> > incompatibility was introduced somewhere around the network sockets
> > data, and the new userland utilities - netstat, apparently sockstat
> > too - cannot quite deal with the old kernel's way of presenting
> > the information.
> > 
> > As a side question, what is the output of:
> >     netstat -an | grep '^tcp.*LISTEN'
>
> You fired almost to the point - many of the system directories remained
> not updated by some reason after an 'upgrade' option in sysinstall,
> however new kernel is working fine. So it seems that the OLD userland
> utilities cannot quite deal with the NEW kernel's way of presenting
> things. It's interesting if was it something in the upgrade procedure for 
> 4.5, because I upgraded severl times before with the earlier system
> versions and there were no such problems.

Yes, the ABI incompatibility should "work" in this direction, too.
Hmm.  Seems like you hit a sysinstall bug, then :(

G'luck,
Peter

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