Re: 1.3.6x breaks top? Floating point exception?

Brad Littlejohn (tyketto@corona.unomaha.edu)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:18:18 -0600 (CST)


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> Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@medman.ag.or.at> wrote:
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> >On Sat, 10 Feb 1996, evan cheng wrote:
>
> >>
> >> I've recently updated my Linux kernel from 1.3.52 to 1.3.60 and .61
> >> Unfortunately, "top" and "ps u" would result in "Floating point
> >> exception". Moving back to 1.3.52 while keeping everything else the
> >> same and it works as expected.
> >I moved up from 1.3.59+mark6 to 1.3.67, and now top stops to work after
> >sometime :(
> >>
> >> Help would be much appreciated.
>
> >And Andreas Kostyrka answered:
>
> >I don't know any cure :(
>
> I just compiled 1.3.57, having heard it was the latest stable kernel,
> but I got the same problem. In a way I am glad to see I am not alone
> in this, but does anyone know:
>
> Is this something *I* did wrong, and if not, is this fixed in 1.3.68?

Upgrade to procps-0.99a, available at your favourite SunSITE mirror,
in the Incoming directory. It also fixes the problems with <string.h> and
strtok. so grab that. The old procps was broken from kernel 1.3.53 up.

BL.

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