root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) (07/25/85)
`ps' is giving me messages like "no room in text table" and "ps: error
reading ecmx from /dev/kmem" and "error reading namelist." In single
user mode it simply prints the banner for `ps' like so...
"PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND"
but no shows me no processes!
Does this sound like a familiar problem? I did add some new disks and
recompile vmunix to use those disks but other than that I can't see what
the problem would be. Vmunix is intact in the root.
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"There is not a single McDonald's in Garrett County"rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) (07/29/85)
In article <1056@trwatf.UUCP> root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes: > >`ps' is giving me messages like "no room in text table" and "ps: error >reading ecmx from /dev/kmem" and "error reading namelist." In single >user mode it simply prints the banner for `ps' like so... > >"PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND" > I had the "error reading namelist" message and got just the header, so I poked through the code and found out that after it prints the header it is looking for the file /etc/ps_data -- which was scrogged. I just removed the file on a whim and ps recreated it correctly next time it was run (of course it took much longer). Now I have modified out /etc/rc to remove /etc/ps_data unconditionally on system startup so it will be recreated; the problem has not recurred. P.S.: This is on Sys V, so your problem may be more involved. -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj
jack@boring.UUCP (08/05/85)
In article <1056@trwatf.UUCP> root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith) writes: > >`ps' is giving me messages like "no room in text table" and "ps: error >reading ecmx from /dev/kmem" and "error reading namelist." In single >user mode it simply prints the banner for `ps' like so... > >"PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND" > You should have specified the system you used. On a V7 system, this usually means that /unix is not the kernel you're running at the moment, so 'ps' tries to read things from a running kernel using an incorrect namelist. Fix: move /unix to /oldunix, and your running kernel to /unix. -- Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP The shell is my oyster.