After recompling the monitor program under DU 3.0B all was fine.
Thanks go to Alan Rollow - alan_at_nabeth.cxo.DEC.com
Original email follows:
>I just recently installed 4.0B on an Alpha 3800. I'm trying to run the
>"monitor" program but keep getting the following error:
>monitor: read_kernel: Can't read from /dev/kmem: No such device or address.
>I'm running this as root, so there should not be a permission issue.
>ls -l /dev/k*
>crw------- 1 root system 31, 0 Mar 5 12:57 /dev/kbinlog
>crw------- 1 root system 3, 1 Feb 26 11:03 /dev/kcon
>crw-rw---- 1 root system 25, 1 Feb 26 11:03 /dev/keyboard0
>crw------- 1 root system 3, 0 Feb 26 11:03 /dev/klog
>cr--r----- 1 root mem 2, 1 Mar 6 07:57 /dev/kmem
>If this was just a permission issue I would expect the message to read:
>monitor: live: Can't open /dev/kmem: Permission denied.
>I removed /dev/kmem and remade the device with /dev/MAKEDEV kmem
>I still have the same problem. This isn't a 4.0B problem because the
>monitor program is running on another Alpha with the same OS.
Received on Thu Mar 06 1997 - 20:08:03 NZDT