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<numa_num_configured_nodes())
 				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