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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:58:40 +0100
From: Florian Unglaub <ueber@roladder.net>
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Subject: Problems with linprocfs(5) and htop
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I compiled sysutils/htop from the ports collection and noticed that it
does not display any process information as it's supposed to do. Instead
I get a blank screen (see [0]).

htop relies on linprocfs(5) to gather process statistic. linprocfs is
mounted:

linprocfs on /usr/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)

There's also a thread on the FreeBSD forums [1], but no solution to the
issue so far. 

Similar issues appear when using utop [2]. This looks like a general
linux-emulation/linprocfs issue to me. Does anyone have any ideas what
might cause those issues or how to resolve them?

Regards
Florian.

[0]: http://roladder.net/~flo/picdump/htop.jpg
[1]: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26951
[2]: http://github.com/jeffwar/utop