Hi, I am having a very strange phenomenon with my 9.2 prof with kernel 2.6.8-SL92_BRANCH_20050216124101-default (24-11 behaves identical). nathan login: hm Password: You have new mail in /var/mail/hm. Last login: Mon Mar 21 21:02:42 on tty3 Have a lot of fun... /bin/ls: cannot read symbolic link /proc/6006/exe: Permission denied nathan:~$ echo $$ 6006 nathan:~$ l /proc/$$/ /bin/ls: Lesen der symbolischen Verknü /proc/6006/cwd nicht möch: Keine Berechtigung /bin/ls: Lesen der symbolischen Verknü /proc/6006/root nicht möch: Keine Berechtigung /bin/ls: Lesen der symbolischen Verknü /proc/6006/exe nicht möch: Keine Berechtigung insgesamt 0 dr-xr-xr-x 3 hm users 0 2005-03-21 21:04 ./ dr-xr-xr-x 89 root root 0 2005-03-21 20:56 ../ dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 attr/ -r-------- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 auxv -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 cmdline lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 cwd -r-------- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 environ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 exe dr-x------ 2 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 fd/ -rw------- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 mapped_base -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 maps -rw------- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 mem -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 mounts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 oom_adj -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 oom_score lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 root -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 stat -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 statm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 status dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 task/ -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2005-03-21 21:04 wchan How can that be? PID 6006 is my login shell, and the directory /proc/6006 belongs to me but the contents belongs to root.root??? Needless to say my usual PS1 prompt $(ppwd \l)\u@\h:\w> is not set up. ??? The installation is on the latest YOU level as of about 2 weeks ago. I usually log in to KDE so that I didn't see it before. -- "We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem." -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982