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From: valke@psy.vu.nl (Peter Valkenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ps failed & lpr = PANIC
Message-ID: <8798@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Jan 91 15:51:58 GMT
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In article <1991Jan19.214422.13570@bwdls61.bnr.ca> fortinp@bwdls56.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin) writes:
>In article <41987@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, Michael.Joswig@germany.sun.com (Michael Joswig (Vertriebsunterstuetzung Hamburg)) writes:
>> 1) A few days ago I cried for help because the "ps" command failed on my
>> Atari ST (Minix 1.5.10, Patchlevel 3). I haven't described the failure
>> exactly, so I got some interesting, but unhelping ideas from you.
>
>Page 105 of the manual states:  "It is advised to generate a new file
>'/etc/psdatabase'..."  Use the command "ps -U", then copy /etc/psdatabase to
>your root disk.
>

Since the error message apparently was "Can't read kernel namelist", this will
not help.  Also, the database is only a convenience facility, not mandatory.

It seems that either your kernel binary is not in place (by default this is
/usr/src/kernel/kernel.mix), or that it doesn't contain a namelist.  Maybe some
ST expert needs to comment here on how to get a symbol table.

	Peter Valkenburg (valke@psy.vu.nl).