[comp.sys.sun] Diskless 3/50: Can't do ps -ax

marcel@nluug.nl (Marcel Bernards) (04/26/89)

Hello sunners,

Im watching a strange phenomena (4.0 ;-) now:

When i do `ps -ax` on several diskless clients

i got only:

zappa{marcel}364: ps -ax
  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND

Anything seems to be running fine, even my cpu perfmeter

I've seen this happening several times.

Any Ideas ???

Greetings:

Marcel Bernards, UNIX & Net sysadm Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN
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phill%med-image.compsci.bristol.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (05/07/89)

We had exactly the same problem on a Sun3/260 running SunOS4.01. I
tried lots of things to no effect - the problem went away on reboot and
has not returned (yet!).

Phill Everson
University of Bristol, UK

blc@crdgw1.ge.com (Brett Chapman x5156 ) (05/11/89)

The only time that I can recall when I do a ps(1) and get no processes is
when the current copy of /vmunix is not the same as the one the system was
booted with.

Hope this is the answer.

	Brett Chapman
	G.E. Medical Systems
	(414) 548-5156
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