Hi all, first some information about my copy of procfs and the computer I am running it on. This computer is an imac G5 running leopard 10.5.6 with, as far as I know, no defective hardware (although the motherboard was replaced a few years ago for burning out power supplies). The copy of procfs is the precompiled binary linked to on osxbook.com, and I installed it by following the instructions on both osxbook.com, and the forum post entitled "Howto recipe - Install procfs (Leopard) - Basic Steps" on this board (although I don't appear to have wget installed on this system - I placed the plist file in / Library/LaunchDaemons manually with Path Finder; it is the only file in that directory). Both produced identical scenarios described below.
The problem is just what it sounds like. In certain folders in procfs, some operations hang for several seconds and, following that, everything I used to be able to do in /proc no longer works. Doing these mundane operations as root makes no difference, and they all occur under the same circumstances in Terminal, X11, Finder, and Path Finder (Both in the gui and its integrated terminal). Here are some logs from Terminal. imac-g5:~ taylorh$ sudo procfs /proc imac-g5:~ taylorh$ cd /proc imac-g5:proc taylorh$ ls 0 11 127 16 27 36 401 53 85 99 1 12 13 212 31 376 403 55 86 byname 10 122 133 216 32 38 404 61 87 system 100 123 14 22 33 381 41 64 88 101 125 15 25 339 382 45 80 89 103 126 156 26 35 383 47 84 90 imac-g5:proc taylorh$ cat 0/cmdline (Everything seems to be working here so far) kernel imac-g5:proc taylorh$ cd byname imac-g5:byname taylorh$ ls (The process hangs for about 30 seconds and the fans spin up) ls: .: Device not configured imac-g5:byname taylorh$ cd .. imac-g5:proc taylorh$ ls ls: .: Device not configured imac-g5:proc taylorh$ cat 0/cmdline cat: 0/cmdline: Not a directory The following operations hang and cause procfs to fail: ls in byname, system/hardware/displays, anyprocess/windows/ screenshots, and likely ls in other subdirectories in the guts of process directories. cat on system/hardware/mouse/data/mouse, anyprocess/windows/onscreen, and likely other such files. Oddly, mouse, displays, and camera are the only places in system that do not work properly. I figured that this was because I had no camera, but I decidedly have a mouse and display. It is also not explicit instructions that cause procfs to hang. Attempting to autocomplete in a shell a filename I am guessing to be in a directory that ls hangs in will also hang and break things- I expected this to be the case but I wanted to check. Any ideas as to what is going on? Thanks for your help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
