diff --git a/top/top.c b/top/top.c
index aa2777b2..a48a5b91 100644
--- a/top/top.c
+++ b/top/top.c
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static int Numa_node_tot;
 static int Numa_node_sel = -1;
 #ifndef NUMA_DISABLE
 static void *Libnuma_handle;
+static int stderr_save = -1;
 #if defined(PRETEND_NUMA) || defined(PRETEND8CPUS)
 static int Numa_max_node(void) { return 3; }
 static int Numa_node_of_cpu(int num) { return (num % 4); }
@@ -4043,6 +4044,17 @@ static void wins_stage_2 (void) {
    // fill in missing Fieldstab members and build each window's columnhdr
    zap_fieldstab();
 
+#ifndef NUMA_DISABLE
+   /* there's a chance that damn libnuma may spew to stderr so we gotta
+      make sure he does not corrupt poor ol' top's first output screen!
+      Yes, he provides some overridable 'weak' functions to change such
+      behavior but we can't exploit that since we don't follow a normal
+      ld route to symbol resolution (we use that dlopen() guy instead)! */
+   stderr_save = dup(fileno(stderr));
+   if (-1 < stderr_save && freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr))
+      ;                           // avoid -Wunused-result
+#endif
+
    // lastly, initialize a signal set used to throttle one troublesome signal
    sigemptyset(&Sigwinch_set);
 #ifdef SIGNALS_LESS
@@ -5508,6 +5520,16 @@ static void frame_make (void) {
       the normal non-interactive output optimization... */
    if (!Cap_can_goto) PSU_CLREOS(0);
 
+#ifndef NUMA_DISABLE
+   /* we gotta reverse the stderr redirect which was employed in wins_stage_2
+      and needed because the two libnuma 'weak' functions were useless to us! */
+   if (-1 < stderr_save) {
+      dup2(stderr_save, fileno(stderr));
+      close(stderr_save);
+      stderr_save = -1;
+   }
+#endif
+
    /* lastly, check auto-sized width needs for the next iteration */
    if (AUTOX_MODE && Autox_found)
       widths_resize();