top failure

[Holger Kipp]

typical 'kernel and world out of sync', I'd guess.

Regards,
Holger Kipp

RMH (rmhlldr at yahoo.co.uk) wrote: 
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>
>Hello gentlemen,
>
>I've discovered an interesting failure on some machine running
>4.7. It's so weird so I'd very unlikely notice it at all, but
>thanks to top(1): when launched, instead of displaying some
>useful figures it exits with an error: "top: nlist failed".