[Paraview] Paraview3 installation problem : unable to start Paraview

[Mike Jackson]

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.

-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Jun 4, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Raashid Baig wrote:

> I have checked out the sources from cvs and tried to build Paraview3
> there was absolutely no error during the installation but when I try
> to launch the paraview executable is just says :
> "Floating point exception (core dumped)"
>
> The hardware configuration of the computer is Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4,
> 2GB DDR2 RAM and NVidia 7600 graphics card. The system runs on
> Ubuntu 7.04.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> The gdb output is :
>
> raashid at bean:~/src/cvs/ParaView3-unix/bin$ gdb ./paraview
> GNU gdb 6.6-debian
> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,  
> and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain  
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for  
> details.
> This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so. 
> 1".
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /home/raashid/src/cvs/ParaView3-unix/bin/paraview
>
> Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
> Cannot remove breakpoints because program is no longer writable.
> It might be running in another process.
> Further execution is probably impossible.
> 0xb22721e6 in ?? ()
>
>
>
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