procps 010801-2 question

[Elfyn McBratney]

> I am busy moving my environment from my local
> hard drive to a network drive. So far, so good,
> everything is working and I remapped my
> mounting points so that they use my network
> drive.
>
> Instead of the standard /bin/ps, I like
> to use /bin/procps, which gives more information.
> Since moving to the network drive however,
> /bin/procps goes to 100% when I use it. I can
> easily cancel it with Ctrl-C, so no problem there.
>
> While I was at it, I tried to use strace for looking
> at procps. This has become unusable from a shell,
> but I can use it from a normal dos prompt.
>
> [bin]$ strace ls
> strace.exe: must provide either a command line or a process id

Jurgen,

>From your strace output I can see A lot (few) attempts to open files in
/boot and /lib/modules . Are these broken symlinks? Can you provide the
output of `cygcheck -svr' as a plain-text *non-compressed* attachment? It
may help uncover your problem.

Elfyn


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