<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Can you build with debug symbols on and then run paraview from gdb? You should then be able to get a stack trace at the point of the floating point exception.<DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Bitstream Vera Sans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Innovative Management & Technology Services</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 4, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Raashid Baig wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P> I have checked out the sources from cvs and tried to build Paraview3<BR> there was absolutely no error during the installation but when I try<BR> to launch the paraview executable is just says :<BR> "Floating point exception (core dumped)"<BR> <BR> The hardware configuration of the computer is Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4,<BR> 2GB DDR2 RAM and NVidia 7600 graphics card. The system runs on<BR> Ubuntu 7.04.<BR> <BR> -----------------------------------------------------------<BR> The gdb output is :<BR> <BR> raashid@bean:~/src/cvs/ParaView3-unix/bin$ gdb ./paraview<BR> GNU gdb 6.6-debian<BR> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.<BR> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are<BR> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.<BR> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.<BR> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.<BR> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...<BR> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".<BR> (gdb) run<BR> Starting program: /home/raashid/src/cvs/ParaView3-unix/bin/paraview<BR> <BR> Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.<BR> Cannot remove breakpoints because program is no longer writable.<BR> It might be running in another process.<BR> Further execution is probably impossible.<BR> 0xb22721e6 in ?? () </P> <BR><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ParaView mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:ParaView@paraview.org">ParaView@paraview.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview">http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>