Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Jun 1999 11:38:45 +0100 (BST) | From | nix-kernel@esperi ... | Subject | /proc/net/dev vanished?! |
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Does anyone know any circumstances under which this may happen? I think it happened on or around boot time; at least it happened some time ago and the system (apart from not being able to do much with `ifconfig' &c) appears still stable.
Viz:
nix@loki 188 % ls -l /proc/net/ total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 5 11:34 arp -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 5 11:34 netlink -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 5 11:34 route dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 5 11:34 rpc -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 5 11:34 unix
My .config is
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_M586TSC=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PACKET=m CONFIG_NETLINK=y CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y CONFIG_VORTEX=y CONFIG_PLIP=m CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y CONFIG_RTC=y CONFIG_JOYSTICK=m CONFIG_JOY_ANALOG=m CONFIG_QUOTA=y CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_JOLIET=y CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_SUNRPC=y CONFIG_LOCKD=y CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2=m CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m
Loaded modules are
Module Size Used by sb 32820 1 uart401 5904 1 [sb] sound 56184 0 [sb uart401] soundlow 224 0 [sound] soundcore 2148 6 [sb sound] nls_cp437 3548 2 (autoclean)
and the module state's been static since just after boot.
Anyone have a clue? *confused*
-- `As promised, here's the patch to do this. Not only is it good (it compiles), but it is perfect (it boots). Up 9 minutes so far without problems.' --- Richard Gooch on linux-kernel
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