"ps: seek error" - What does it mean?
Adnan Yaqub
adnan at sgtech.UUCP
Thu May 25 17:33:44 AEST 1989
In article <1887 at mas1.UUCP> marc at mas1.UUCP (Marc deGroot) writes:
> In article <ADNAN.89May15155425 at sgtech.UUCP> adnan at sgtech.UUCP (Adnan Yaqub) writes:
>Our Intel 386 box with Xenix 2.3.1 has a problem, and it is probably
>one we have inflicted on ourselves. After the system is rebooted and
>weeds. Maybe somebody could tell me what seeks ps does.
ps tries to open /unix to read the symbol table. That's how it knows where
the process table is in the kernel. The easiest fix is to make a link from
the booted kernel to /unix. Another approach is to use the -n option
on ps (this is from memory - I may be wrong) which allows you to specify
which kernel file is used.
This has turned out to be an SCO Xenix bug for which they have a fix
(pach number xnx120).
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Adnan Yaqub
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