Help with fixing 'top' in RH 7.2

[Ealric]

Have a strange problem here. On a pretty much "stock" installation of RH 7.2, I can't run the 'top' command. I figured perhaps if I could find the rpm that provides 'top' to begin with, then perhaps a forced reinstall would work. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that. The closest I get is libgtop, and it seems to provide the related libraries, but not the executable. Also, the one of the machines in the environment is able to run 'top' w/o libgtop, so there goes my theory there.

Anyhow, this is the error I get:

5:44pm up 428 days, 3:04, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.00
37 processes: 36 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
Floating point exception
[user@server2 user]$
[user@server2 user]$
[user@server2 user]$ rpm -qa | grep libgtop
libgtop-1.0.12-4

Anyone have any suggestions for me? I could really use the help.

 

[flugh]

Try installing the 'procps' package. I don't know the Redhat equivalent, but in Mandrake, I do a 'urpmf /usr/bin/top' to get the name of the package that provides that file (even if it isn't installed, a limitation of rpm -qa | grep <file> if I remember correctly).


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JR

 

[TheRAt]

rpm -q --whatprovides /path/to/top

The above should list the name of the rpm package that installed top.

My RH 7.2 machine lists procps-2.0.7-11

Ash
tnedor@bigfoot.com

 

[Ealric]

Sorry about the late response, but thanks for the help, all.