procps stop working randomly (2.4.1)

[David Raufeisen]

Hi,

Never seen this before but this morning 'ps' and the like randomly stopped
working..

david@prototype:~$ ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
david@prototype:~$ 
david@prototype:~$ uname -a
Linux prototype 2.4.1 #1 Tue Jan 30 01:45:38 PST 2001 i686 unknown
david@prototype:~$ uptime
 10:46am  up  7:25,  4 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.14, 0.09

But if I wait for a little bit and run it again it works, then stops working..
and so on.

Linux prototype 2.4.1 #1 Tue Jan 30 01:45:38 PST 2001 i686 unknown
Kernel modules         2.4.1
Gnu C                  2.95.3
Gnu Make               3.79.1
Binutils               2.10.1.0.2
Linux C Library        2.2.1
Dynamic linker         ldd (GNU libc) 2.2.1
Procps                 2.0.7
Mount                  2.10q
Net-tools              2.05
Console-tools          0.2.3
Sh-utils               2.0.11
Modules Loaded         NVdriver

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