[Paraview] Fwd: Baffled by "floating point exceptions" in ParaView 3.6.1

Thu Aug 6 17:22:29 EDT 2009

That came from simply "gdb ./paraview", then "run" and "bt" once it died.

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:55 PM, j s <j.s4403 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking online, that is a nasty FPE, since it is a result of an integer
> operation, not a floating point operation.
>
> This is occuring at address NULL, which should not be possible.
> #8  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
>
> It looks like a function at address 0 is being called.  Do you have more of
> the trace, or is that the top?  If that is the top, can you see if this
> function is being invoked from a different thread?
>
> Juan
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ok, more information.
>>
>> If I compile ParaView without Python and without MPI, it works
>> beautifully.
>>
>> Enabling MPI, however, causes the problem.. a GDB trace:
>>
>>
>> (gdb) run
>> Starting program: /viz/work/rhand/pvezviz/install-MPI/bin/paraview
>>
>> Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
>> 0x00000030fea6911c in _int_free () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x00000030fea6911c in _int_free () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6
>> #1  0x00000030fea69596 in free () from /lib64/tls/libc.so.6
>> #2  0x00000030fe800a2b in ?? ()
>> #3  0x0000007fbfffc8b0 in ?? ()
>> #4  0x0000002a9758a11e in ?? ()
>> #5  0x000000000000fd00 in ?? ()
>> #6  0x000000000128502b in ?? ()
>> #7  0x0000002aa267372a in ?? ()
>> #8  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
>> (gdb)
>>
>> The MPI libraries I'm using:
>>
>>  MPI_EXTRA_LIBRARY
>> /usr/local/ofed/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.2.8/lib64/libmpi.so;/usr/local/ofed/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.2.8/lib64/libopen-rte.so;/usr/local/ofed/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.2.8/lib64/libopen-pal.so;/usr/lib64/libdl.so;/usr/lib64/libnsl.so;/usr/lib64/libutil.so;/usr/lib64/libm.so;/usr/lib64/libdl.so
>>  MPI_INCLUDE_PATH
>> /usr/local/ofed/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.2.8/include
>>  MPI_LIBRARY
>> /usr/local/ofed/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.2.8/lib64/libmpi_cxx.so
>>
>> Anyone see anything obviously wrong?
>>
>> --
>> Randall Hand
>> Visualization Scientist
>> http://www.yeraze.com
>> http://www.vizworld.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Rick Angelini <angel at arl.army.mil>wrote:
>>
>>> Randall - we saw some execution-time failures of 3.6.1 that was related
>>> to an older version of the nVidia driver.     We didn't see floating point
>>> exceptions, though - we saw socket errors related to the client-server
>>> connection.  Moving to a newer version of the nVidia driver on the client
>>> side fixed the problem.     It doesn't make sense, but that's what happened!
>>>   8-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> j s wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had meant to send this to the list, instead of just Randall.
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: *j s* <j.s4403 at gmail.com <mailto:j.s4403 at gmail.com>>
>>>> Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:03 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Baffled by "floating point exceptions" in
>>>> ParaView 3.6.1
>>>> To: Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com <mailto:randall.hand at gmail.com
>>>> >>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you are running it in gdb, you might be able to do:
>>>>
>>>> (gdb) handle SIGFPE nopass
>>>> Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
>>>> SIGFPE        Yes       Yes     No              Arithmetic exception
>>>>
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>> (gdb) handle SIGFPE nostop nopass
>>>> Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
>>>> SIGFPE        No        Yes     No              Arithmetic exception
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com<mailto:
>>>> randall.hand at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    I was unable to compile 3.4 against these libraries, compilation
>>>>    would fail with errors in the Python libraries about "-fPIC".
>>>>
>>>>    I'll try again without MPI & Python, and get back with you.
>>>>
>>>>    --
>>>>    Randall Hand
>>>>    Visualization Scientist
>>>>    http://www.yeraze.com <http://www.yeraze.com/>
>>>>    http://www.vizworld.com <http://www.vizworld.com/>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Berk Geveci
>>>>    <berk.geveci at kitware.com <mailto:berk.geveci at kitware.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        Can you try compiling without Python and MPI? Also, can you
>>>>        try with
>>>>        Mesa? I am guessing some system library is causing this
>>>>        problem but
>>>>        without a stack trace, it will be trial-and-error to find out
>>>>        which.
>>>>        Also, do older versions work with the same libraries?
>>>>
>>>>        -berk
>>>>
>>>>        On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Randall
>>>>        Hand<randall.hand at gmail.com <mailto:randall.hand at gmail.com>>
>>>>        wrote:
>>>>        > I've compiled ParaView 3.6.1 three times so far, and every
>>>>        time it compiles
>>>>        > successfully but when I attempt to run it, it dies with
>>>>        "Floating point
>>>>        > exception".
>>>>        >
>>>>        > I'm compiling it on a Linux system (RHEL4), and linking
>>>>        against MPI (OpenMPE
>>>>        > 1.2.8) and python (2.5.1).  I'm using cmake 2.6.4 .  Is
>>>>        there some known
>>>>        > problem here?
>>>>        >
>>>>        > I compiled Paraview in "Debug" mode, but a backtrace doesn't
>>>>        show anything
>>>>        > but question marks.
>>>>        > --
>>>>        > Randall Hand
>>>>        > Visualization Scientist
>>>>        > http://www.yeraze.com <http://www.yeraze.com/>
>>>>        > http://www.vizworld.com <http://www.vizworld.com/>
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