[Paraview] Fwd: Baffled by "floating point exceptions" in ParaView 3.6.1
Berk Geveci
berk.geveci at kitware.com
Tue Aug 11 09:52:43 EDT 2009
My guess is that there is a symbol conflict between something in
ParaView and OpenMPI 1.2.6. If switching to 1.3 does not fix the
problem, we'll have to resort to debugging this some other way.
-berk
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Rick Angelini<angel at arl.army.mil> wrote:
> Randall - try compiling against Openmpi-1.3 and see if you get different
> results. We saw issues with compiling Paraview 3.x against Openmpi-1.2.6
> that went away when we switch to Openmpi-1.3.
>
>
>
> j s 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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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>
>> <mailto: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>
>> <mailto: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>
>> <mailto: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>
>> <mailto: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>
>> <mailto: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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