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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] uptime problems?
Date: 12 Dec 2001 19:26:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1008177992.3441.8.camel@nosferatu.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011212111803.A52557@enteract.com>

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On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 19:18, Terry Chan wrote:

/proc mounted ?


> Is anyone else have a problem with running the uptime command?
> 
> On a clean install gentoo r11 box (currently upgraded to latest portage
> and baselayout) running uptime gives:
> 
> uptime: couldn't get boot time: No such file or directory
> 
> drobbins suggested using strace, which gives a lot of stuff but the
> important part is:
> 
> open("/var/run/utmp", O_RDWR)  = 3  (I think this means it successfully 
>                                      opened the file)
>                                      
> then a lot of seeks and reads that don't seem to find whatever uptime
> is looking for inside the above file.
> 
> The end of the strace gives the above message "couldn't get boot time: ..."
> 
> Does anyone know how to fix this problem of not being able to get info
> from "uptime" ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Chan
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-12 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-12 17:18 [gentoo-dev] uptime problems? Terry Chan
2001-12-12 17:26 ` Martin Schlemmer [this message]
2001-12-12 17:31 ` David Edwards

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