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Subject: Re: something's weird with ps
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 12:09:36 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199605271508.RAA10147@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at May 27, 96 05:08:10 pm
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Christoph P. Kukulies writes:
>
>> Christoph P. Kukulies writes:
>>>
>>> Found it! Due to the recent problems with /procfs (mount_procfs gone)
>>> I disabled the mount in /etc/fstab.
>>>
>>> The symptom I described (no ps times 00:00:00 , no command lines,
>>> just (getty) ) occurs exactly when there is no /procfs.
>>
>> Interesting.  I suppose that one's worth documenting.
>>
>> I'm getting the same problem on my -stable box:
>>
>> === grog@daemon (/dev/ttyp0) /usr/home/grog 5 -> ps aux
>> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
>> grog       740  0.0  3.8   472  220  p0  R+    3:50PM    0:00.03  (ps)
>> root         1  0.0  1.3   364   72  ??  Is   12:35PM    0:00.12  (init)
>> root         2  0.0  0.3     0   12  ??  DL   12:35PM    0:04.86  (pagedaemon)
>> root         3  0.0  0.3     0   12  ??  DL   12:35PM    0:00.27  (vmdaemon)
> [...]
>> grog       658  0.0  9.0   820  532  p0  Ss    3:02PM    0:00.86  (bash)
>> root         0  0.0  0.1     0    0  ??  DLs  -          0:00.00  (swapper)
>>
>> Permissions look OK.  Any other ideas?  Which lkm might cause this
>> problem?
>
> I could reproduce it after umounting /proc.
> Do you have /proc in /etc/fstab?

Oops, sorry, I forgot to say that /proc is mounted.

Greg