Bug 6626

Summary:	procps Unknown HZ value! (XX) Assume 100.
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Cassiano Martin <cassiano>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	2013.08
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:
Attachments:	procps-3.2.8-linux_version_init.patch procps-ng.patch

Description Cassiano Martin 2013-10-29 01:51:06 UTC

Procps suite is goes nuts with my mips64 board. the problem seem harmless, as I read from the gentoo forums. All binaries included in procps suite show the same message "Unknown HZ value! (XX) Assume 100.", like top, ps, uptime, et all.

Attached is a patch from the gentoo, which seems to solve this. it works fine for x86 and mips64 as I tested.

Comment 1 Cassiano Martin 2013-10-29 01:51:58 UTC

Created attachment 5102 [details]
procps-3.2.8-linux_version_init.patch

Comment 2 Thomas Petazzoni 2013-11-13 23:36:02 UTC

Instead, we should switch the procps package to use procps-ng, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/procps-ng/. This one has an active upstream, with a Git repository and so on.

Cassiano, would you be willing to provide a patch to Buildroot that does this?

Comment 3 Cassiano Martin 2013-11-16 12:28:00 UTC

Created attachment 5120 [details]
procps-ng.patch

Comment 4 Cassiano Martin 2013-11-16 12:28:15 UTC

Patch provided.

Working fine with no more patches on x86, x86_64 and mips64.

I''l leave to the buildroot devs find out why configure script concatenates exec-prefix, resulting in a bogus path. As a workaround I had to set --exec-prefix=/

Comment 5 Thomas De Schampheleire 2014-02-07 08:43:10 UTC

Hi Cassiano, 

Would you mind sending also this patch to the mailing list instead?

Thanks,
Thomas

Comment 6 Thomas De Schampheleire 2014-06-08 20:40:34 UTC

Procps-ng is merged now, making this as resolved.