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

[Rick Angelini]

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  Moving to a newer version of the nVidia 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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