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Re: [SLUG] Problem with console



Quoting "Grahame M. Kelly" <gmkelly@nospam.zip.com.au>:

> Hi Sluggers.
>
> I got a problem after a PSU blow up thats a little 
hard to find.
>
> After replacing PSU, and rebooting machine. I force a 
e2fsck and
> everything is OK (node and disk wise) but if I do 
a "ps fax" or a
> "top" the screen aborts and all I get is a bold 
highlighted prompt,
> and doing "reset" restores the screen (x screen 
actually) to the
> default setting. Both "ps fax" and "top" give seg 
fault. "ps"
> alone goes OK so I suspect the problems are in the 
console/terminal
> setups. Checking "ps fax" or "top" with strace seem 
to indicate it
> seg faults on writing out the "pueso graphics". Ie. 
The tree for ps
> fax.

Hmmm... POssibly a dicky SIMM ?
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