Re: 1.3.6x breaks top? Floating point exception?

Jon 'tex' Boone (tex@isc.upenn.edu)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:00:27 -0500


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> >> 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?

I suspect that this is not fixed in 1.3.68 (at least, on my
Thinkpad, I get "floating exception" when I run a ps -u

Jon Boone
<tex@isc.upenn.edu>

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