Re: Floating Point Exception with Linux 2

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From: Jeremy Laidman
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:00

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Richard Bywater wrote:

> 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?

This is probably caused by your ps being too old.  I'm not using 2.x but I 
had this problem after upgrading to 1.3.71.   Upgrade to a "procps" package
later than 0.97.  For me:  "ps --version" gives "procps version 1.01".

Cheers
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From: Jeremy Laidman <Jeremy.Laidman@cit.act.edu.au>
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Date: 1996/08/23
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