Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:59:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A lot of "exited on signal 8" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161359030.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980713202737.20369A-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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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
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