Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:39:08PM +0200, Marc Brockschmidt wrote: >>This is bug #545306. Michael, the kernel on the machine is a 2.6.18, >>mostly because it's a Xen box. An update would be possible in theory, >>but seems unfeasible at this point of time. > At the moment it seems a lot like bug 464118. Try providing an strace of > the failure to see what function is failing. Does it work if /proc is > mounted?
/proc is mounted: # mount | grep proc proc on /proc type proc (rw) proc on proc type proc (rw) More system information: # uname -a; dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}: ${Version}\n' coreutils libc6 Linux demosthenes.ayous.org 2.6.18.3xenu #2 SMP Fri Nov 24 22:26:50 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux coreutils: 7.5-4 libc6: 2.9-26 # mount | grep `df -P . | grep ^/ | awk '{print $1}'` /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) strace attached. If you need any more information, I'm happy to provide it. Marc -- BOFH #67: descramble code needed from software company
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