Re: problem with latest boot-floppies
Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:40:36AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>> Matt Kraai <kraai@debian.org> writes:
>> > However, only the shell was executing on tty2, and it was in the
>> > root directory. Does anyone know what might still be walking
>> > around in /target/proc?
>>
>> Do ps -- it could be the man postinst...
>
>The man postinst does appear to be hanging around. Furthermore, I
>ran it again on the installed system under strace and it appeared
>to open /proc/meminfo about 2000 times. I'll go ahead and file a
>bug against man-db.
Will be fixed in a couple of days (I have untested code for option (c)
in my brain dump to that bug report now). I imagine that the frequent
opening of /proc/meminfo was related to all the child processes started
by mandb to save cat pages.
Apologies for the disturbance.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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