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From: jack@boring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Help!  `ps' is going flakey on me!
Message-ID: <6555@boring.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 14:59:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 14:59:28 1985
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In article <1056@trwatf.UUCP> root@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"
>
You should have specified the system you used. On a V7 system,
this usually means that /unix is not the kernel you're running
at the moment, so 'ps' tries to read things from a running kernel
using an incorrect namelist.

Fix: move /unix to /oldunix, and your running kernel to /unix.
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
	The shell is my oyster.