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From: fortinp@bwdls56.bnr.ca (Pierre Fortin)
Subject: Re: ps failed & lpr = PANIC
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.211453.6534@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <41987@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1991Jan19.214422.13570@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <8798@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 91 21:14:53 GMT

In article <8798@star.cs.vu.nl>, valke@psy.vu.nl (Peter Valkenburg) writes:
> 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).

I have the ST version from PH.  I applied the three patch files and fired up 
the four Makefiles to get a new system.  Then, I did the "ps -U" and copied it
to my root disk.  Not having actually had any problems with this procedure, I 
just assumed that the originator didn't have access the the manual (updated 
from the net?).  This was the only thing which seemed easy to miss, from the 
official PH docs, so...

At any rate, I don't have the problem which Micheal has.  

Peter, thanks for the clarification.  BTW, the only "problem" I had with the
patches was that after creating the boot diskette, I placed the MINIX.IMG file on
my TOS C: partition; but when invoking it from NeoDesk, I was getting the old
IMG.  Quickly traced this down to the fact that NeoDesk was getting MINIX.IMG 
from my TOS D: partition (Ooooooopps!  <sheepish grin...>)

Cheers,
Pierre
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