"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:

> > 1) top (procps-2.0.7) gives me the messages :
> > 'bad data in /proc/uptime'
> > 'bad data in /proc/loadavg'
> > cat /proc/uptime 
> > 1435.30 904.74
> > cat /proc/loadavg
> > 0.01 0.21 0.29 1/17 19444
> > What is wrong ?

You probably have locale settings where the decimal point is a comma
so scanf on /proc/loadavg etc. doesn't work. The following patch
(submitted to RedHat ages ago) fixes that for me.