Re: 1.3.6x breaks top? Floating point exception?

MT Byers (mtbyers@sunsite.unc.edu)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:01:18 GMT


Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@medman.ag.or.at> wrote:

>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?

Thanks,

Michael