Mounting proc in FreeBSD 14.3

[Zm79bsd]

I've been trying to mount proc for the MATE desktop environment in the latest release of FreeBSD. I've edited the /etc/fstab using vim (vi /etc/fstab) and mounted proc like it says in the guide but after doing so when starting lightdm, a warning message is displayed and the screen almost instantly goes blank. Does the proc line have to mounted in a specific way? I've mounted at the bottom of /dev/ada0p3?

 

[SirDice]

Your /etc/fstab isn't showing anything regarding /proc.

root@fbsd-test:~ # cat /etc/fstab
# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/gpt/efiboot0       /boot/efi       msdosfs rw,noauto       2       2
/dev/vtbd0p3            none            swap    sw              0       0
tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs   rw,mode=1777    0       0
proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0

 

[Zm79bsd]

How do I mount them?

 

[Kai Burghardt]

How do I mount them?

Indeed, § Configure MATE just says “during system startup”. If you don’t want to reboot(8) you can use the § Example shown in the procfs(5) manual page​

mount -t procfs proc /proc

or just mount -a ( ‑a standing for auto) once you have amended the /etc/fstab(5).​