Yesterday, I noticed that netstat had stopped working on my 2.2.17 box (with the reiserfs 3.5.26 patches and lm-sensors/i2c-2.5.2, as it happens), built with gcc-1.1.2. The reason is fairly self-evident: : loki:/# cat /proc/net/dev : Inter-| Receive | Transmit : face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets :errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed : lo:%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu : eth0:%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu Probably not right. This is repeated in other files (I only checked /proc; its subdirectories are probably affected too, viz /proc/net/dev above): : loki:/# cat /proc/uptime : %lu.%lu %lu.%lu : loki:/proc# cat locks : 1: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 481 08:07:%ld %ld %ld %lx %lx %lx %lx %lx : 1: -> POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 174 08:07:%ld %ld %ld %lx %lx %lx %lx %lx : 1: -> POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 175 08:07:%ld %ld %ld %lx %lx %lx %lx %lx : loki:/proc# cat meminfo : total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: : Mem: %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu : Swap: %lu %lu %lu : MemTotal: %lu kB : MemFree: %lu kB : MemShared: %lu kB : Buffers: %lu kB : Cached: %lu kB : SwapTotal: %lu kB : SwapFree: %lu kB : loki:/proc# cat modules : lm75 %lu%ld : lm78 %lu%ld : sensors %lu%ld [lm75 lm78] : i2c-isa %lu%ld (unused) : i2c-piix4 %lu%ld (unused) : i2c-core %lu%ld [lm75 lm78 sensors i2c-isa i2c-piix4] : sb %lu%ld : uart401 %lu%ld [sb] : sound %lu%ld [sb uart401] : soundlow %lu%ld [sound] : soundcore %lu%ld [sb sound] : nls_cp437 %lu%ld (autoclean) : reiserfs %lu%ld : loki:/proc# cat slabinfo : slabinfo - version: 1.0 : kmem_cache %lu %lu : pio_request %lu %lu : tcp_tw_bucket %lu %lu : tcp_bind_bucket %lu %lu : tcp_open_request %lu %lu : skbuff_head_cache %lu %lu : sock %lu %lu : dquot %lu %lu : filp %lu %lu : signal_queue %lu %lu : buffer_head %lu %lu : mm_struct %lu %lu : vm_area_struct %lu %lu : dentry_cache %lu %lu : files_cache %lu %lu : uid_cache %lu %lu : size-131072 %lu %lu : size-65536 %lu %lu : size-32768 %lu %lu : size-16384 %lu %lu : size-8192 %lu %lu : size-4096 %lu %lu : size-2048 %lu %lu : size-1024 %lu %lu : size-512 %lu %lu : size-256 %lu %lu : size-128 %lu %lu : size-64 %lu %lu : size-32 %lu %lu : slab_cache %lu %lu : loki:/proc# cat stat : cpu 10801482 36327863 3223181 %lu : disk 25052 2198771 0 0 : disk_rio 0 1390850 0 0 : disk_wio 0 807921 0 0 : disk_rblk 0 3675365 0 0 : disk_wblk 0 2264982 0 0 : page 0 6518171 : swap 4765642 246633 : intr 98595 50377578 501107 0 0 0 31628678 3 0 141 4926244 0 1028218 341901 1 1332247 :0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 :0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 :0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 :0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 :0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 : ctxt 810791682 : btime %lu : processes %lu (really weird; half the fields OK, half %lu?!?) /proc/ksyms contains random garbage. /proc/ioports oopses if I try to cat it, but the oops message that results isn't much use, as the same gremlins have been at it: : Sep 30 14:57:19 loki kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at :virtual address %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:19 loki last message repeated 2 times : Sep 30 14:57:19 loki kernel: current->tss.cr3 = %%lx, %%cr3 = %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki last message repeated 2 times : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: *pde = %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki last message repeated 2 times : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: Oops: %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: Oops: %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: CPU: 0 : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: CPU: 0 : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: EIP: 0010:[<%lx>] : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: EIP: 0010:[<%lx>] : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: EFLAGS: %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: EFLAGS: %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: eax: %%lx ebx: %%lx ecx: %%lx edx: %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: eax: %%lx ebx: %%lx ecx: %%lx edx: %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: esi: %%lx edi: %%lx ebp: %%lx esp: %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: esi: %%lx edi: %%lx ebp: %%lx esp: %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: Process cat (pid: 14808, process nr: 171, :stackpage=%%lx) : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: Process cat (pid: 14808, process nr: 171, :stackpage=%%lx) : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: Stack: %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: Stack: %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki last message repeated 2 times : Sep 30 14:57:20 loki kernel: Call Trace: [<%lx>] [<%lx>] [<%lx>] [<%lx>] [<%lx>] :[<%lx>] [<%lx>] : Sep 30 14:57:21 loki kernel: %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx %%lx : Sep 30 14:57:21 loki kernel: Call Trace: [<%lx>] [<%lx>] [<%lx>] [<%lx>] [<%lx>] :[<%lx>] [<%lx>] : Sep 30 14:57:21 loki kernel: [<%lx>] [<%lx>] [<%lx>] : Sep 30 14:57:21 loki kernel: [<%lx>] [<%lx>] [<%lx>] : Sep 30 14:57:21 loki kernel: Code: 80 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 89 44 :24 10 f7 c5 : Sep 30 14:57:21 loki kernel: Code: 80 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 89 44 :24 10 f7 c5 Likewise /proc/rtc. It's not been wrong forever; it went wrong without warning at 5 days, 19 hours, 45 minutes uptime, according to procmeter. More cats are available upon request :) -- `Ergotism is what you get if you overuse the word "therefore". Egotism on the other hand is a form of "I" strain.' --- Paul Martin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
