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From: Terry Chan <tchan@enteract.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] uptime problems?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:18:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011212111803.A52557@enteract.com> (raw)

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


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

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

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