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Subject/proc/net/dev vanished?!
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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