On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:09:10PM +0100, Nix wrote: > Yesterday, I noticed that netstat had stopped working on my 2.2.17 box > The reason is fairly self-evident: > > : loki:/# cat /proc/net/dev ... > : 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 This could be explained by a single-bit corruption of your kernel, namely if the place where printk tests a format character against '%' is broken. Maybe the '%' is bad, or maybe the comparison instruction. - 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/