[ILUG] /proc mounting problem

[Declan Moriarty]

Was it Marek Mc Gann who wrote on Thursday 07 March 2002 11:22:
> Hi All,
>
> Shutdown my laptop hastily yesterday evening, and it appears the thing
> hanged somewhere in the process. Opened it this morning to have
> battery-gone warnings. Having plugged the thing and switched it on, I get
> the following error message
> Mounting proc filesystem execvp: Permission denied    pidof[70]: /proc not
> mounted, failed to mount
> Anything I can do?
>
	CRY :)

I would try first with a bootdisk, Tom's  or something, and get apm not 
started, check permissions and so forth. There's all sorts of funnies with 
apm - writing notes to itself, to know what it has been doing. Fairly 
quickly, I'd do a fresh install from your cds(if you have cds) and actually 
install no extra packages. That usually takes you through the setup. Lastly, 
a copious read of what apm actually does, and start guessing. guys on the the 
linux-laptop list run by majordomo at vger.kernel.org (subscribe linux-laptop) 
would have all done this to themselves already.



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	Declan Moriarty




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