Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:27:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:27:37 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com ([204.127.198.39]:47262 "EHLO rwcrmhc53.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:27:25 -0500 Message-ID: <3C44BB1B.E1F3318C@didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:28:27 -0500 From: Brian Gerst X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Thalinger CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: floating point exception In-Reply-To: <1010925802.674.0.camel@sector17.home.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/