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From: francis@hslrswi.UUCP (Francis Demierre)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: question about ps (AIX 1.1 PS/2)
Message-ID: <1221@hslrswi.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 90 23:01:53 GMT
References: <237@bally.Bally.COM>
Reply-To: francis@hslrswi.UUCP (Francis Demierre)
Organization: Hasler AG, CH-3000 Berne 14, Switzerland
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In article <237@bally.Bally.COM> pete@bally.Bally.COM (Pete Gregory) writes:
>Hi -
>
>Sometimes, when I do a ps -el (that's /bin/ps), I get the following
>two errors (and no ps output):
>
>	swapread: dbd not of type DBD_SWAP
>	getupages: Can't read upage from swap for proc nnnn
>
>Any ideas?  The process number nnnn is a normal user process that is
>there all the time, and not something that is just starting or exiting.
>
>Thanks for your help......
>
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I have the same problem with an application I wrote that forks some 
process to test the printer (The forked process write to the printer and
wait the write to come back to know if the printer works or not. More
complicated than that but not relevant to the problem).

The thing is that while 'write()'ing, the same message comes up. The process
ID is random, sometime a normal user process, often the process ID of 
pciconsrv.ip (DOS Access server), etc....

The messages are described neither in the "Messages" manual nor anywhere 
else.

By the way, I'm running AIX 1.1 with update MMPP1402 installed.

If anybody knows about, I would be pleased to know about it too !

Thanks in advance, Francis.


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