Re: SIGFPE

Ramana Radhakrishnan
2008-11-12T05:05:41Z

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Stefan Adams <stefan@borgia.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a package of pulseaudio for thinstation. I've
> done that and it's apparently successful because there were no errors
> during compile.
>
> I boot up thinstation and try to run pulseaudio and I get this
> horribly worthless message: "Floating point exception"
> That's it! All by itself! How can I proceed to solve the problem?
> Is it in pulseaudio? Is it in one of the other libraries that I had
> to compile? All compiling was done within the RUNME chroot
> environment provided by thinstation_src.
>
> Do you think thinstation or pulseaudio groups may be able to help, or
> am I going to have to debug the problem myself? If the latter, *any*
> suggestions would be most welcome!!
>
> # /bin/pulseaudio
> Floating point exception
>
> # ldd /bin/pulseaudio
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
> libpulsecore.so.8 => /lib/libpulsecore.so.8 (0xb7ed6000)
> libltdl.so.3 => /lib/libltdl.so.3 (0xb7ece000)
> libsamplerate.so.0 => /lib/libsamplerate.so.0 (0xb7d65000)
> libspeex.so.1 => /lib/libspeex.so.1 (0xb7d52000)
> libspeexdsp.so.1 => /lib/libspeexdsp.so.1 (0xb7d44000)
> libsndfile.so.1 => /lib/libsndfile.so.1 (0xb7bb5000)
> liboil-0.3.so.0 => /lib/liboil-0.3.so.0 (0xb7b57000)
> libgdbm.so.3 => /lib/libgdbm.so.3 (0xb7b51000)
> librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb7b3e000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7b3a000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7b19000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b08000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7a18000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f44000)
>
> # gdb /bin/pulseaudio
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> This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host
> libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /bin/pulseaudio
>
> Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
> 0xb7f157ae in ?? ()
>
>

Try doing a backtrace (bt) at this point and look at where the
exception was caused in source if you have a debug build on.. If you
want to talk about pulseaudio code then you should go to those lists.
This list is for discussions about gdb and its internals.

cheers
Ramana