Whenever I run fuser, I get output like this: [18:51:49 alexander@server:~] $ LC_ALL=C fuser /usr 0: No such file or directory /usr: [18:52:17 alexander@server:~] $ mount | grep 'on /usr ' /dev/mapper/system_vg-usr on /usr type xfs (rw,noatime) Until a few days ago, fuser used to work just fine. [18:53:03 alexander@server:~] $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-ck3.007.reiser4_rc5-mm2.deflate-static i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-ck3.007.reiser4_rc5-mm2.deflate-static i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X acl alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid async avi bash-completion bluetooth bonobo calendar cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom codecs crypt cscope css cups divx4linux dvdread encode esd ethereal exif fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg fftw firefox flash foomaticdb ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gmail gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal hpn iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libwww logitech-mouse logrotate lufsusermount lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska matrox mbox mime mmap mmx mng mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses network nls no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro nopop3d noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam parse-clocks pcntl pcre pda pdflib perl pic pie png posix ppds python qt quicktime quotes rdesktop readline real recode samba sasl shared slang sockets speex spell sse ssl svg symlink sysvipc tcltk tcpd theora tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb usepackagedmakefiles vcd videos vim vim-pager vim-with-x vorbis wmf wsconvert x11vnc xchattext xfs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_matrox linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
run it through strace LC_ALL=C strace -o log -f fuser /usr then attach the 'log' file here
Strange. I logged out of Gnome and logged back in (*WITHOUT* rebooting!) and now fuser works. I don't have the slightest idea how that can come. Nevermind this bug report :(
