Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:27:24 +0200 From: Joachim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SIGPFE problems on Athlon processors running 4.3-STABLE Message-ID: <3BD75C6C.8070201@ludd.luth.se> References: <20011024163638.K27972-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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Aloha!
Chris BeHanna wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
>
>
>>Aloha!
>>
>>We have a set of Athlon (1200 or 1333 MHz) basesd worksatations. For these
>>I've tried to install crypto support using either gnupg, pnugp or pgp5 from
>>the ports. It doesn't go particularily well.
>>
>>Besides such problems like the pgp port not installing based on PREFIX (it
>>installs the stuff in /usr/local even though the info in /vad/db/pkg/pgp says
>>it was installed in /usr/opt) Something more disturbing is happening.
>>
>>Both versions of pgp dies with a signal 8 (SIGPFE) when running. Like this:
>>
>
> SIGFPE -- Floating Point Exception
>
> This would be an underflow, overflow, or divide-by-zero error.k
> FWIW, GnuPG works fine on my T-bird.
Yes, SIGPFE are floating point exceptions. See man signal. The question is if
anybody have any clue why this happens on the Athlon for GPG. And how to fix.
As I wrote, gnupg doesn't work either since it never finishes generating the keys. Also, AFAIK there are some interoperability questions visavi PGP for gnupg.
--
Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers!
Joachim Strömbergson
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