On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:57:38PM -0600, Richard A. Smith wrote: > Last week I did an 'apt-get update' of a debain unstable and now I've > noticed that my /proc fs is broke. > > It appears to be mounted correctly and all the entries show up if you > do a 'ls' but if you actually try to look at an entry its just blank. Well, you're not the only one to see this problem... I always though I was! I never figured out what caused it, and I haven't seen it in recent kernels (> ~2.4.9). The problem only appeared on one machine (a 650 MHz PIII Sony VAIO laptop), and was intermittent in a completely unpredictable way. I never pursued the problem on the kernel mailing list, because I never figured out a reliable way of triggering the bug, and found no symptoms except for the empty /proc/. I doubt any of this information will be of any use to you. There's definitely a problem somewhere, but I can't begin to imagine what it might be... noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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