From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 13:59:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12241 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12236 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01556; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:59:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Jan B. Koum " cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A lot of "exited on signal 8" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > > Hello again, > > I just compiled 2.24 xscreensaver and every now and then I get: > > pid 1660 (discrete), uid 1000: exited on signal 8 (core dumped) > pid 1692 (flame), uid 1000: exited on signal 8 (core dumped) > pid 1970 (flame), uid 1000: exited on signal 8 (core dumped) > > So, I do grep in /usr/include/sys/signal.h: > > #define SIGFPE 8 /* floating point exception */ > > So, now the question I have is (and sorry if this sounds stupid): > can I give cc some compiler flag so I won't get floating point exception > errors? Or maybe there is something else I can do to fix it? Thanks, You may be running out of resources; try running `unlimit' before starting X. It could be program bugs too. Did you use the port? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message