Messages in this thread |  | | From | <papyrus.hamburg.com!papyrus.hamburg.com!> | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:59:32 -0500 |
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(Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #4) id m0vtyUu-000FnvC; Mon, 10 Feb 97 17:22 MET Received: (from ad@localhost) by lx2.noname (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA00023; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 17:22:27 +0100 To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Process 1, ppid != 0 Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.90) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Andreas Degert <ad@papyrus.hamburg.com> Date: 10 Feb 1997 17:22:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: owner-linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu's message of Mon, 10 Feb 1997 06:22:33 -0500 Message-ID: <x1hgjkvdfg.fsf@lx2.noname> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14
Chris Wedgwood <chris@cyphercom.com> writes:
> > Something odd just happened. I typed 'pstree -up' and was given what looked > like a 'recursive tree'. > > Anyhow, I checked and for some reason, process 1 (init) thinks its ppid is 1 > (itself). I've never seen this before. > > This occurred under Linux 2.0.29. I have another 2.0.29 box which doesn't do > this. (ie. the ppid for process 1 is 0). > > Any ideas?
I had exactly the same thing (init suddenly has ppid 1) some weeks ago, on one of our servers running 2.0.27 or 2.0.28 (i don't remember exactly). I filed it under "mysterious hardware problems etc.", because it did never happen before or after that. The system didn't get unstable, but i got a lot of mail from a cron-job that used pstree (endless recursion), so i had to start it again.
Now it seems more like a bug that's triggered very seldom?
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