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
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