Re: procps

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Phil Oleson wrote:

> this has been happening for a while.. was waiting to see if it got updated
> and fix itself but that has not happened.  I've even tried having apt/dpkg
> build the source package, but that failed to finish the compile.  Here is 
> the error
> 
> Warning: /boot/System.map not parseable as a System.map
> Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map not parseable as a System.map
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
> 20731 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
>  4122 pts/1    00:00:00 ps
> 
> Any ideas? the source package was generating a bunch of cast problems
> etc.. before it failed.

It's really a warning, not an error.  To fix it, copy the System.map file
from your compiled kernel source tree to /.  It just needs a reference to
map the kernel stuff to (which that file provides).

C