ccs013@castor.ucdavis.edu (Jason) (05/14/89)
I have recently acquired and installed a version of Mtrek (2.1) on a Sun.....
Everything works fine. But,
about 2 nights ago, people started telling me there plasma torps were not coming
up on the screen. I looked and looked and could not find a thing. No hidden
files or bkgrnd jobs/processes. I also realized a few other things: bouys,
mines or anything else interactive did not work. So I erased the game, went
back to my source and re-installed the whole thing. It was still messed up.
So someone re-booted the machine ( a Sun 3/280 ). That worked. However, after a
while of playing all the above got screwed again. So we tried it on a different
machine; it was ok and then eventually screwed up too.
Besides bad interaction (I believe its a daemon problem) the daemon keeps
running; however, I cannot find it's process. The only clue I found is, when
I logged in on 2 different terminals, ran Mtrek on one and searched processes
with the other, instead of ' ps -aux ' giving me simply ' mtrek ' it said
' / (mtrek) ' and a second time, ' d (mtrek) '. I've been working
like mad to find the answer to this problem? Any ideas?
The only problem on fixing is: the software that I have is archives of object
files, not original source code. HELP!
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