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Description of problem:
top prints out the first few summary lines and then zero, one or two cpu status
lines and then prints Floating point exception and exits.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
It is happening every time on the box in question now, but it used to work.

When I run with strace, it does not crash.

Actual Results:  Run1:
 11:21am  up 286 days, 17:50,  4 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.19, 0.56
203 processes: 200 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 1 stopped
Floating point exception

Run2:
 11:21am  up 286 days, 17:50,  4 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.19, 0.55
203 processes: 200 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU0 states: 15.0% user, 84.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Floating point exception

etc.

Expected Results:  Normal top output

Additional info:

When I run top with strace, it works but the system CPU usage looks wrong.

 11:24am  up 286 days, 17:53,  4 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.15, 0.47
204 processes: 201 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 1 stopped
CPU0 states: 16.0% user, 83.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
CPU1 states: 16.0% user, 83.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
CPU2 states: 50.0% user, 50.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
CPU3 states: 12.0% user, 87.0% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:  2574644K av, 2562656K used,   11988K free, 1329716K shrd,  122316K buff
Swap: 2097112K av, 1065336K used, 1031776K free                  470396K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
31648 jnewbigi  10   0   572  572   456 S    24.0  0.0   0:01 strace
31649 jnewbigi  11   0  1124 1120   828 R    24.0  0.0   0:00 top
    1 root       8   0   376  336   316 S     0.0  0.0   1:31 init
    2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
    3 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:36 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    4 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:37 ksoftirqd_CPU1
    5 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:36 ksoftirqd_CPU2
    6 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:36 ksoftirqd_CPU3
    7 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0 209:01 kswapd
    8 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:01 kreclaimd
    9 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush
   10 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   5:13 kupdated
   11 root      -1 -20     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00 mdrecoveryd
   20 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   9:47 kjournald