console-kit: what is "/proc/16750/environ"

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Tue Jul 15 07:42:22 UTC 2008


On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Dan Thurman wrote:

> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 08:39 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > This appears consistenently in my /var/log/messages file.
> > > What IS this process and how do I fix this?
> > > =============================================
> > > Jul 11 08:24:53 bronze console-kit-daemon[7946]: WARNING: Couldn't read
> > > /proc/16750/environ: Error reading file '/proc/16750/environ': No such
> > > process
> >
> > # man proc:
> >
> >        /proc/[number]/environ
> >               This file contains the environment for the process.  The
> > entries are  separated  by  null  bytes
> >               (’\0’), and there may be a null bytes at the end.  Thus, to
> > print out the environment of process
> >               1, you would do:
> >         [... etc.]
> >
> > Also:
> >
> > # ls -l /proc/[number]/exe
> >
> > # cat /proc/[number]/cmdline
> >
> Ok... I wasn't explict enough.  I am getting this message in the system
> logs when I reboot the system.  Why is it even appearing?  Is this normal
> or what?

  i've been seeing the same thing in /var/log/messages:

...
Jul 14 13:35:58 localhost console-kit-daemon[2236]: WARNING: Couldn't
read /proc/30830/environ: Error reading file '/proc/30830/environ': No
such process
...

  so what is console-kit-daemon looking for?  and i see nothing in
bugzilla about this.

rday
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