Help! `ps' is going flakey on me!

[Curtis Jackson]

In article <1056 at trwatf.UUCP> root at 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.
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