Floating point exceptions?

[Quest-Master]

One pre-compiled and compiled-by-self program return these: Floating point exception.

The compiled-by-self returns it before launching, and the pre-compiled one just does it whenever it wants.

Now, absolutely NOBODY on any other distro's running these two programs get this same problem. Gentoo, Fedora, whatever.

I really need to figure out how to fix this.. I didn't come to Ubuntu to lose two of my most precious programs.

[Quest-Master]

Bump.. because otherwise I'm going to have to resort to trying out another Linux distribution in the meantime.

[LordHunter317]

No way to tell without source code. FPEs could be caused by literally thousands of different bugs.

[jdong]

hmm, what programs are these?

Tried a self-compiled kernel?

[Quest-Master]

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I'll try a self-compiled kernel though I don't know how it'd help.

[RJARRRPCGP]

No way to tell without source code. FPEs could be caused by literally thousands of different bugs.

That also includes unstable processor overclocking! I always ran Prime95 to make sure that my processor is working properly. If there's a processor malfunction, Prime95 will fail!!! Usually, Prime95 is able to detect a problem with giving a "graceful exception" by scrolling an error message, which means that Prime95 detected a calculation problem.

When the above is the cause, floating point exceptions usually occur when the processor is under stress. Crashes also would be random.

[RJARRRPCGP]

One pre-compiled and compiled-by-self program return these: Floating point exception.

The compiled-by-self returns it before launching, and the pre-compiled one just does it whenever it wants.

Now, absolutely NOBODY on any other distro's running these two programs get this same problem. Gentoo, Fedora, whatever.

I really need to figure out how to fix this.. I didn't come to Ubuntu to lose two of my most precious programs.

Have you ever ran Prime95 to test for stability problems? I do and recommend it to be ran for 24 hours!

Also, do you have an Athlon 64 processor? If you do, there's possibly some batches of processor chips that are faulty!!! At least on a couple of message boards, some people are complaning about the Prime95 torture test failing on them, even when the processor isn't overclocked at all!!! The problem was reported the most with "Winchester" cores.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=390844