Re: Broken /proc? [SOLVED}
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:08:12 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>So: mount an additional proc filesystem and compare contents,
>particularly your secondary proc's 'mounts' file:
>
> $ mkdir /proc2
> $ mount -t proc proc /proc2
> $ cat /proc2/mounts
> <etc>
> $ umount /proc2; rmdir /proc2
Ahhh... Excellent tip.. I had not even considered this.
>> Once I did a rm -r on the fake /proc all was well. So I guess the
>> moral is don't trust the output of 'mount' if things are flaky or at
>> least cross check it with /etc/mtab.
>
>In general, if you're not sure of /proc's status or your root
>partition's writeability, neither the 'mount' command, /etc/mtab, nor
>/proc/mounts are going to be trustworthy.
However, the fact that they were different tipped me off that
_something_ was bogus and that I could not trust what mount was
telling me. So the fact they are different is a clue to investigate
further. But I'll note the above. The only true way to cross check
it to mount a new procfs and take a look. Excellent advice.
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Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc.
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Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
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