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top is not working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nikki Cook)
Sat Oct 24 15:01:42 1998
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:00:54 -0400
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From: Nikki Cook <sunny@mail.suntrix.com>
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Ok, now I'm comfortable enough with how things are done here to present you
all with my problem in hopes that you can help me.
This is on a 5.1 box (orig 2.0.34 kernel from the CD) that has been running
flawlessly since July until about a week ago. I normally admin that
machine via ssh. I also normally tail -f messages because this box is a
shell user box.
The first thing I saw was the tail screen go nuts, like a panic or race. I
couldn't do anything with the box to get control, nothing responded, so I
hit the power button.
It rebooted just fine, forced the fsck without any glaring problems. All
daemons loaded, all croned user processes started, and everything looked
just ducky 'till I ran top to check on their procesess. I noticed that
Top's CPU % was about half what it normally took. I checked file size/date
against another 5.1 box on our network, no difference.
The next time I tried to run top, it threw a "bad data in /var/run/utmp" at
me, and made that xterm unusable.
After reading and digging for info, I rm'd /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp,
touched those files, logged out and back in. Top still wouldn't run. Now
this is really weird, Top wouldn't run on that other 5.1 box either. Yes,
I was logged into it as well via ssh when all this started.
Back to box #1... I rm'd and touched the files again, rebooted, changed to
single user mode and ran fsck on each partition. It fixed stuff, then I
ran it a second time on each partition and all partitions showed clean. =20
Logged in. Top ran 3 times, then started throwing the same "bad data"
complaint at me.
I checked /dev/ttyp*, didn't see anything weird there.
If I've left lots out that you need to know to help me or point me in a
direction, my apologies. Yep, I'm one of those "newbies" that needs
somebody to take me by my sweaty li'l palm and explicitly and succinctly
tell me how to fix this. I just don't have the know-how to sort this out
and fix it on my own.
TIA,
Nikki
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