root@umibox.hanse.de
Date: 12/07/92


From: root@umibox.hanse.de
Subject: Re: [Q] Help with ps -U
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 14:32:58 GMT

c60c-2gf@web-2d.berkeley.edu () writes:

>I was upgrading from .98pl1, and found many things were broken so I
>decided to return to my old image. A few strange things have been
>happening with ps now. After I did ps -U (and ps U), the ps in pl6
>responed with some weird process numbers etc. Now, when I went
>back to pl1 (again running ps -U) I get nothing under ps, just
>the header line...

This is easy to explain...
There is this file called /usr/src/linux/system.map or such that ps -U uses
to get all the interesting adresses from. After you have compiled pl6, it's
of course the adresses of pl6... Doesn't work for pl1 (always a good idea:
keep the old sources around, maybe by renaming /usr/src/linux to
/usr/src/linux.old).

For ps to work under pl6, you'll have to recompile it. Worked great for me.

Bernie