Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-9 Severity: grave "sysctl -a" and "sysctl -A" prepend a bogus "hello" to their output. This will break scripts that parse sysctl output.
,---- | $ /sbin/sysctl -a | hellokernel.sched_min_granularity_ns = 4000000 | kernel.sched_latency_ns = 20000000 | kernel.sched_wakeup_granularity_ns = 10000000 | kernel.sched_child_runs_first = 1 | kernel.sched_features = 895 `---- The culprit is apparently a debug printf() statement introduced in debian/patches/10_sysctl_options.dpatch: + if (DisplayAllOpt) { + printf("hello"); + if (Quiet) + return Usage(me); + return DisplayAll(PROC_PATH); + } Cheers, -Hilko -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages procps depends on: ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081220-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy procps suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org