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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:36:12 +0200
From:      Joachim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se>
To:        stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SIGPFE problems on Athlon processors running 4.3-STABLE
Message-ID:  <3BDAB84C.3060708@ludd.luth.se>
References:  <20011024203410.K28383-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>

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Aloha!

Chris BeHanna wrote:

>     It happens on *your* Athlon.  It doesn't happen on mine.  I don't
> know why you'd have a problem.  The only clue I can give you is that
> it is something peculiar to your environment, or to the way you built
> PGP, GnuPG, or one of their dependencies.


All systems are very stock 4.3-STABLE systems with as many non-used featues 
and extras turned off. We have opted for stability, and well known, well used 
parts for all systems. This is actually the first weird thing.

>     Can you determine where it's dying (e.g., via the -v flag)?


Will do.

>     Question:  do other floating-point apps work on your machine?
> (E.g., calc, desktop calculators, gnumeric, StarCalc, multimedia
> apps).  If not, then maybe you inadvertently disabled the npx0 device
> in your kernel, or it has a conflict?  (Mine wants IRQ 13.)


Yes. StarCalc, Octave, Matlab, SPICE, Our own system models, FFT-kits. These 
machines do floats all the time.


>     FWIW, I also have CPU_ENABLE_SSE in my kernel.
>     Does GnuPG work if you boot GENERIC?


We could try that flag. No, GnuPG still hangs.

>     GnuPG uses the OpenPGP format for its keys.  That said, I've
> successfully imported (and am still able to use) my older PGP keys, as
> well as send messages to PGP users and decipher messages from PGP
> users.


Yes, I've tried to read up on the different public key applications available. 
We need to be able to exchange keys and encrypted, authenticated data with 
people on several different systems (HP-US, Solaris as well ass Windows).

The issues I'm concerned with is being able to interchange encrypted stuff 
with users that aren't too clued up on fixing things on computers, but are 
able to use a GUI-thingy to actually encrypt and decrypt stuff (yes, Windows 
userd).

I found this page.
http://technocage.com/~caskey/gnupg/pgp2gnupg.html

So it's possible to set up gnupg to actually work with the different versions 
of GPG and all key types, but it would require some work on our users (people 
on our local FreeBSD system) part. Might be possible, but probably will 
inflict confusion. Or?

-- 
Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers!

Joachim Strömbergson
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