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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: something's weird with ps
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> 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?

> 
> Greg

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de