Hello, It seems with some kernels, including some found in wheezy, that ps will crash. The most likely problem is the number of groups appearing in /proc/<PID>/status. I have two reports of this happening already.
I am proposing: * Increase the severity of bug #702965 * Applying a minimal diff which is in upstream (second half of [1]) * Uploading a new version of procps Otherwise we're going to be plauged with ps crashing type bugs for years while wheezy is still around, or until the next sub-release. This change is pretty trivial and works for all known kernel formats. There is another change at [2] where the buffers are dynamically created but this is brand new and a much much bigger change. I'd like to do this today (28/Mar). - Craig [1] https://www.gitorious.org/procps/procps/commit/7933435584aa1fd75460f4c7715a3d4855d97c1c [2] https://www.gitorious.org/procps/procps/commit/a45dace4b82c9cdcda7020ca5665153b1e81275f -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5
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