diff -up numactl-2.0.9/numactl.c.orig numactl-2.0.9/numactl.c

--- numactl-2.0.9/numactl.c.orig	2014-07-31 15:42:21.474060364 +0200

+++ numactl-2.0.9/numactl.c	2014-07-31 15:42:32.894085763 +0200

@@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ void hardware(void)

 	int prevnode=-1;

 	int skip=0;

 	int maxnode = numa_max_node();

+	

+	if (numa_available() < 0) {

+                printf("No NUMA available on this system\n");

+                exit(1);

+        }

 	for (i=0; i<=maxnode; i++)

 		if (numa_bitmask_isbitset(numa_nodes_ptr, i))