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))