[uClibc]busybox ps garbled characters

Stuart Hughes seh at zee2.com
Mon Jun 23 05:50:53 UTC 2003


Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> On Fri Jun 20, 2003 at 03:53:52PM +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I get garbled characters when I run ps (busybox) with uclibc:
> >
> > #
> > ps
> >   PID  Uid     Stat
> > Command
> >     1 root     S     .
> > ..o*
> >     2 _ÄÄ+     S
> > ....o*
> >     3 root     S     .
> > ..o*
> >     4 _ÄÄ+     S
> > ....o*
> >     5 root     S     .
> > ..o*
> > [snip]
> >
> > I saw something like this on the mailing list:
> >
> > http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2003-March/008196.html
> >
> > But there did not seem to be a final answer.
> 
> I did not answer the previous mail since I have no answer to
> give...  I am logged into my mipsel system running the latest
> uClibc and latest busybox and busybox ps works as expected....
> 
> Without being able to reproduce the problem here, I can't easily
> do anything to fix it.
> 
> > I'm running as snapshot of uclibc (uClibc-20030616.tar.bz2) on a 5432
> > mipsel platform.  The packages are built using the native uclibc
> > compilers.  The version of busybox is 0.52 (old but I saw a report like
> > this for 0.60.5).
> >
> > - kernel is 2.4.19-rc1
> > - proc is mounted
> > - uclibc .config attached
> >
> > Any clues/pointers gratefully accepted.
> 
> I don't see anything about you .config that suggest problems.
> Tried using ltrace, strace, and/or gdb?
> 

I'll try looking into it further and report anything interesting back.

Regards, Stuart



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