Re: Floating Point Exception with Linux 2

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From: Graham Daveney
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 00:00

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Matt Jenkins (mdj@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:
: Richard Bywater (bywateri@ee.cit.ac.nz) wrote:
: : Hi - not sure if this is a hardware problem but anyway...
: : 
: : I recently installed Linux 2.0.0 without much hassle.  However now when I 
: : do certain commands (Top for instance) it comes up with Floating Point 
: : Exception and then quits the program being run.  I have a Pentium 133 so 
: : I decided to remove Kernel Math Emulation - Should I leave it in?
: : 

You should read the changes file in the usr/src/linux/Documentation directory.

It specifically states that you need the procps 1.01 package or else you will
get floating point exception errors when you try to run anything to do with
the ps command.

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From: daveney@speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney)
Subject: Re: Floating Point Exception with Linux 2
Date: 1996/09/07
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