Re: 2.4.0-x features ?

Pierre Rousselet (pierre.rousselet@wanadoo.fr)
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:18:57 +0100


"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
>
> Pierre Rousselet writes:
>
> > 1) top (procps-2.0.7) gives me the messages :
> > 'bad data in /proc/uptime'
> > 'bad data in /proc/loadavg'
> > cat /proc/uptime
> > 1435.30 904.74
> > cat /proc/loadavg
> > 0.01 0.21 0.29 1/17 19444
> > What is wrong ?
>
> Which 2.4.0-x kernel, and how was procps compiled?
> (the broken gcc again perhaps?)
>
> You might as well get procps-010114.tar.gz (new just yesterday!) and
> compile it yourself. The top command seems to tolerate Red Hat's
> fixed gcc, which you should get if you are using Red Hat 7.

I did that. Compilation OK with gcc-2.95.2 top still doesn't work (
top > /dev/null tells you 'bad data in ...' just before the screen
blanks).
logout after commenting LC_ALL=fr and LANG=fr in /etc/profile
login again : top works.

It is a question of '.' and ','

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