top giving floating point exception

[spc10118]

Hi Linux Gurus,

I am facing floating point exception issues in running top on some of my Red-Hat Linux servers

# top
6:45am up 476 days, 52 min, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
109 processes: 108 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
Floating point exception

When I am executing the same command using strace or ltrace, its running fine.
# ls -lrt /usr/bin/top
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34924 Aug 27 2001 /usr/bin/top


Not sure what other information can i provide. Please assist. I would appreciate any help in resolving this issue.

Thanks,
Sumeet

[Roxoff]

My immediate thoughts are that you have a permissions issue of some kind or there is a non-standard version of 'top' in your path.

What happens when you do 'which top'? Are you running top with strace by it's full path name? Will top run normally if you specify its full path on the command line?

It looks like you're doing this as root. What happens if you run top as a regular user?