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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Christian Thalinger <e9625286@student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: floating point exception
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:28:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C44BB1B.E1F3318C@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010925802.674.0.camel@sector17.home.at>

Christian Thalinger wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Just downloaded again, after a long time, the setiathome client. I
> wanted to look how smooth my tyan dual works. So i started the client
> and after a few seconds it gets and `floating point exception'. No
> problem till now, cause it seems to be seti bug. Ok.
> 
> Right after that my window manager segfaults. Ok, switch to console,
> restart it and go. No! Can't start any programs anymore, no login. All
> tasks die one after the other, up to the complete lock of the machine.
> Even alt-sysrq doesn't work.
> 
> So, this is kernel 2.4.17 and i'll try other kernels right after this
> email.
> 
> Anyone knows what's going on?

What CPU do you have?  Do you have the FPU emulator compiled in?  Are
there any oops messages?

--
						Brian Gerst

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-15 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-13 12:43 floating point exception Christian Thalinger
2002-01-15 23:28 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2002-01-16 11:45   ` Christian Thalinger
2002-01-16 11:58     ` Dave Jones
2002-01-16 13:14       ` Bruce Harada
2002-01-16 20:06         ` Christian Thalinger
2002-01-17 19:26         ` bill davidsen
2002-01-16 13:52     ` Brian Gerst
2002-01-16 14:28       ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-14 10:56 Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-01-14 21:26 ` Christian Thalinger
2002-01-15 14:34   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-01-15 14:46     ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-15 18:19     ` Christian Thalinger
2002-01-15 18:31       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-15 18:49         ` Christian Thalinger
2002-01-16  5:45       ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-01-16 11:55         ` Christian Thalinger
2002-01-16 14:32           ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-01-16 20:26             ` Christian Thalinger
2002-01-16 21:23               ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-16 21:59                 ` Brian Gerst
2002-01-16 22:05                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-16 22:12                     ` Mark Zealey
2002-01-16 22:23                       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-01-16 23:35                     ` Christian Thalinger
2002-12-27 14:18 Floating Point Exception Nandakumar  NarayanaSwamy

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