Re: gkrellm: Floating point exception during startup

Bill Wilson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:04:33 +0100
"Malte J. Wetz" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was using gkrellm on my new netbook (Lenovo Ideapad S10) for a few
> days without problems but lately, it refuses to start and instead
> displays a xmessage:
> 
> 	gkrellm floating point exception: (initializing)
> 
> The same string plus an addional "Aborted" is printed to stdout. This
> message is not particularly helpful so I do not really know what might
> be the problem.
> 
...
> Does anyone know this error or have an idea how I can narrow down the
> cause of it?

It would help if you can get a stack trace from a gkrellm compiled with debugging
symbols.  To compile, untar and:

$ cd gkrellm-x.y.z/src
$ make debug=1

Start up the new gkrellm in the current src dir in gdb:

$ gdb ./gkrellm
(or, if you haven't compiled a new gkrellm, just do "gdb gkrellm", it still might help
to get a trace without debugging symbols)

Start gkrellm running:

(gdb) run

After gkrellm aborts, get the trace with:

(gdb) bt full

and  then quit the gdb session with:

(gdb) quit


Thanks,

Bill

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