diff -up numactl-2.0.3-rc3/distance.c.orig numactl-2.0.3-rc3/distance.c

--- numactl-2.0.3-rc3/distance.c.orig	2009-05-08 10:10:06.000000000 -0400

+++ numactl-2.0.3-rc3/distance.c	2009-05-08 10:13:01.000000000 -0400

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ static int read_distance_table(void) 

 	int numnodes = 0; 

 	int *table = NULL; 

 	int err = -1;

+	int found_nodes = 0;

 	for (nd = 0;; nd++) { 

 		char fn[100]; 

@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ static int read_distance_table(void) 

 		sprintf(fn, "/sys/devices/system/node/node%d/distance", nd);

 		dfh = fopen(fn, "r"); 

 		if (!dfh) { 

-			if (errno == ENOENT && nd > 0)

+			if (errno == ENOENT)

 				err = 0;

 			if (!err && nd

 				continue;

@@ -79,14 +80,15 @@ static int read_distance_table(void) 

 		} 

 		parse_numbers(line, table + nd * numnodes, numnodes);

+		found_nodes++;

 	}

 	free(line); 

-	if (err)  { 

+	if (!found_nodes)  { 

 		numa_warn(W_distance,

 			  "Cannot parse distance information in sysfs: %s",

 			  strerror(errno));

 		free(table); 

-		return err;

+		return -1;

 	}

 	/* Update the global table pointer.  Race window here with

 	   other threads, but in the worst case we leak one distance