Re: proc mount, but acts like it isn't.

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@licquia.org>]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 11:44, Blunier, Mark wrote:
> I've got 2 machines running Debian Woody that act like proc is not mounted.
> running ps as a user:
> 
> user@linuxbox:~$ ps
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
> 
> When I run ps as root, it hangs.  When I run mount, it shows
> proc is mounted, but I cant remount it, and I can mount it a
> second time.  After I mount it the second time, then things
> work as usual.  Any ideas of what is wrong?
> 
> linuxbox:~# mount
> /dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> linuxbox:~# ps
> 
> linuxbox:~# mount proc /proc -t proc -o remount
> mount: /proc not mounted already, or bad option
> linuxbox:~# mount proc /proc -t proc
> linuxbox:~# mount proc /proc -t proc -o remount

Possibly, /etc/mtab is out of sync for some reason.  The next time you
see this, look at /etc/mtab and see what it says, then compare it to
/proc/mounts.  (If you can't get to /proc/mounts, then that should tell
you something.)


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