[Paraview] Fwd: Baffled by "floating point exceptions" in ParaView 3.6.1
j s
j.s4403 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 17:56:27 EDT 2009
You may be able to try setting the environment variable:
MALLOC_CHECK_
to
2
and the program should abort on the first instance of heap corruption.
Regards,
Juan
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM, j s <j.s4403 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if a function is being called through a null pointer, or gdb
> is reporting it for another reason.
>
> Something bad is happening in free(), which has nothing to do with
> numerics, but may have something to do with how your libraries are treating
> memory.
>
> Apparently bt is supposed to give you the whole backtrace, but probably
> only for that thread. You can type:
> info threads
>
> to see if any other threads are running and try looking at their stack
> traces.
>
> Regards,
>
> Juan
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> That came from simply "gdb ./paraview", then "run" and "bt" once it died.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Randall Hand
>> Visualization Scientist
>> http://www.yeraze.com
>> http://www.vizworld.com
>>
>>
>> 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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