From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The custom configuration for top that I save with the W command is not used the next time that top is started. After I change the configuration of top, I use the W command to save the configuration, and the ~/.toprc file is written to the hard disk. But after closing top and restarting, the default configuration is used instead of the new configuration. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procps-3.2.5-6.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start top and change some of its configuration 2. use the W command to save the new configuration 3. close top 4. restart top Actual Results: The built in default configuration for top is used instead of the custom configuration. Expected Results: The new custon configuration should be used. Additional info:
It's already reported problem (see bug #161449) and it should be fixed exactly in procps-3.2.5-6.3. Do have really this version (check "rpm -qf `whereis -b top` 2> /dev/null") ? I cannot reproduce it any more. Please, try: rm ~/.toprc (or mv ~/.toprc ~/.toprc.backup) start top press 'c' press 'W' stop top (press 'q') start it again and there should be full command lines after startup.
I am using procps-3.2.5-6.3. Deleting ~/.toprc does allow top to work correctly. I had not tried removing that file previously. You are correct, this bug is fixed.
Thanks for confirmation. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161449 ***