For what it's worth, the confusion in this bug log seems due to the fact that people testing succesfully clearly have /proc mounted.
I spotted the same bug on the Ubuntu buildds today while mucking around inside chroots without /proc mounted: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/192239 ... Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]