"TOP" Command keeps going to "stopped" state

mudtoe · 03-09-2009, 06:30 PM

Hi folks:

I'm not a Linux expert, and maybe there is an easy solution that I'm missing here, but for some reason the "TOP" command all of a sudden keeps going into the stopped state after one to three iterations. I key in "fg" and it gives me a few more iterations and then goes into stopped state again. The only odd thing that's happened recently is that the power cord got pulled on the machine, so it didn't shutdown correctly. I've tried creating a different userid just in case something in my normal userid profile got corrupted during the power off, but the same thing happens. I don't know where the underlying files are for this command, or if there is a way to uninstall and reinstall it without reinstalling the O/S. The machine is running Ubuntu server 8.04, Webmin, and VMWare Server 2.0.

Suggestions welcome.

Thanks,

mudtoe

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 03-09-2009, 07:26 PM

I don't quite understand what you mean by

Quote:

the "TOP" command all of a sudden keeps going into the stopped state.

Try installing Htop instead...

Code:

sudo apt-get install htop

Htop will run from the desktop or commandline.

AlucardZero · 03-09-2009, 08:55 PM

Are you hitting CTRL+Z?

mudtoe · 03-09-2009, 11:15 PM

I tried htop, and that's nice; it works fine. With regard to ctrl-z, I'm not hitting that, unless there is something screwy about the terminal emulation. I'm using Putty from a Windows machine to create an SSH session to the machine. I'll go back and see if there are any settings in Putty that could be sending ctrl-z as a line feed or something.

mudtoe