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Corrupted /proc/devices
Name: mr_pea Date: October 3, 2003 at 10:24:47 Pacific OS: RedHat linux v2.4.9 CPU/Ram: Pentium 2 266MHz, 128MB R
Comment:
Hi,
I'd be grateful for any advice you can give on the following:
If I logon as "root" to our RedHat linux v2.4.9 computer, and simply type "cat /proc/devices", I get the error message "segmentation fault". Is there any way that I can repair this ? Rebooting doesn't seem to help.
The problem started when I tried installing a software module into the kernel using the insmod command. The module was visible in /proc/modules but not in /proc/devices.
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