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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, <jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com>
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Subject: Re: procps 010801-2 question
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:49:37 +0100
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> 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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