procps-2.0.7: 'top' crashes with various locale sets; fix attached

[stefankrah@…]

The 'top' command crashes when using various locale sets other than en_US. Examples: de_DE@euro; nl_NL@euro John Fremlin <john@…> offers an explanation and a patch at ​http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=126873&repeatmerged=yes . I have applied the patch and it works perfectly. I suggest the following changes for Chapter6, Installing Procps-2.0.7: <snip> Installation of Procps

To ensure that the 'top' command will work properly with all locale sets, apply the locale patch by running the following commands: patch -Np1 -i ../procps-2.0.7-locale.patch

Install Procps by running the following commands: </snip>

[stefankrah@…]

patch solves crashing of the 'top' command with various locales

[gimli@…]

​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~gimli/procps-localefix.patch.bz2

I didn't look at the other patch but it probably does the same thing as mine (at least it fixes the issue). I've created my patch about 6 months ago, nobody replied when I posted it to lfs-dev..

[gerard@…]

Marc your patch is not forgotten.

Please see Bug #18

[gerard@…]

* Bug 387 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *