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SubjectRe: floating point exception
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On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 11:56, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> >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.
>
> Can you reproduce the problem with some degree of success? (2/5 is fine)
>
> Regards,
> Zwane Mwaikambo
>

After a little bit of testing i would say yes. 2-3 out of 5 with kernel
2.4.17 and 2.4.18-pre3. Mainly with X, got some without X.

It seems the floating point exception is only raised with a new data
package. Is there a simple way to raise such a exception?

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