Re: Linux 1.3.72

Martin Konold (zxmmz01@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:13:19 +0100


On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Brian Chetram wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Last night, I compiled Linux kernel version 1.3.72 (ftp from:
> http://ftp.cs.umn.edu/packages/Linux/Kernel/v1.3/) and was able to successfully
> log in with the compiled kernel. However, I encountered the following problems:
> (1) the program, top, complained about a floating point exception
> (2) the command, ps -u, also complained about a floating point exception
>
> Is the floating point exception a bug in the kernel or a mis-configuration of
> my system?
>

Please get a more recent procps-suite.
Some stuff to be parsed from /proc has changed in the kernel.

Yours,
-- martin

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