Although this remount etc did not do the trick, a complete power down of the
system did. I had tried rebooting previously and this did not succeed.
It would be nice to know what causes this.
PS: My original posting should have read "new lad on the BLOCK" 8-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Blu3Viper [mailto:david@kalifornia.com]
Sent: Sunday, 5 April 1998 13:33
To: Bruce Connell
Cc: Linux Kernel
Subject: Re: Proc filesystem problem
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Bruce Connell wrote:
> kernel: Cannot read proc file system: 9 - Bad file number .
i'm not quite sure why this happens, but the quick fix is to remount
/proc.
if mount -w -n -o remount /proc doesn't work, umount it and remount it.
'tis always fixed this rarity for me.
-d
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