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# Troubleshooting guide

This guide will help you sort out the most common issues of running ITS on the PiDP-10
This guide will help you sort out the most common issues of running ITS on the PiDP-10.
Issues covered so far:

## INQUIR not saving changes
* [COMSAT is crashing on start](#comsat-is-crashing-on-start)

through out the document you will see certain special characters mentioned. They are slightly different depending on your keyboard and terminal
* `$` means the ALT or ESC key
* `^` means the CTRL or STRG key
* `<escape>` means the ALT or ESC key in EMACS
* `<control>` means the Control key in EMACS

## COMSAT is crashing on start
Thanks to eswenson for the intial steps here

In order for INQUIR entries to stick, you must have COMSAT running.
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Fair Share 99% Totals: 317 0% 1
Logout time = Lost 0% Idle 98% Null time = 5:07
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As you can see above none of the COMSAT process is running.
As you can see above none of the COMSAT processes are running.

There are several reasons why COMSAT may die upon startup The most common are:
Lets start going through those one by one:
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Type in

`!`

Yes, just the exclamation point character.  This will replace all instances
of `DB` with `KA`.

Save the file. (`<control>x<control>s`) and return to DDT (`<control>x<control>c`).

Now, you are ready to launch `COMSAT`.

But first, make sure there is no (dead) comsat running, but running `peek$k`
But first, make sure there is no (dead) comsat running, but running `peek^k`

Look for any job with the UNAME COMSAT (and the JNAME IV).  If you find one,
kill the job by typing:
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