[Bug 1157643] Re: procps fail to start

2013-10-16 Thread Andreas Gutlederer
In addition to my other comment (#22): I forgot to check /etc/sysctl.conf for kernel.shmmax. The value was defined in there, I commented it out and the update went through afterwards. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. ht

[Bug 1157643] Re: procps fail to start

2013-10-16 Thread Andreas Gutlederer
In my case /var/log/upstart/procps.log says: error: "Invalid argument" setting key "kernel.shmmax" kernel.shmmax is defined in /etc/sysctl.d/30-postgresql-shm.conf but it's commented out: #kernel.shmmax = ... #kernel.shmall = ... I tried to rename kernel.shmmax to k_ernel.shmmax in case it doesn

[Bug 1240332] Re: "procps" error caused by recent update to Ubuntu 12.04 (12.04.3)

2013-10-16 Thread Andreas Gutlederer
Workaround doesn't work for me but I'm able to change /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict 1 # echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict # cat /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict 2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s