Floating point exception in initdb

"Vikram Patil" <vpatil@actuate.com> writes:

I am getting an floating exception while running initdb from custom
built postgresql . I am using suse linux for installing postgresql.

initDB.sh: line 14: 20285 Floating point exception$pgsql_home/bin/initdb
-A password -U postgres --pwfile="pwFile" -E UTF8 -D postgresql/data
/log/initDB.log

Hm, dunno what's causing that ...

Work around gcc bug that causes "floating-point exception" instead of
"division by zero" on some platforms (Tom)

... but I'm quite sure that patch won't fix it for you, because it was
in code that wouldn't get executed during initdb.

What compiler are you using, for what hardware? Did you use any
nondefault configure or compiler switches? Have you modified the
Postgres sources at all? Which step of initdb gets the failure?
Try running that step under gdb so you can get a stack trace pointing
at the failure location.

regards, tom lane

Thanks for reply Tom. I am having source code form 8.4.1 version which
is released on 09-09-2009.

I was able to install it on Redhat machine without any issues. But I am
facing this issue while running initdb on Suse Ent. 9 machine.( Linux
2.6.5-7.97-smp #1 SMP Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux )

Source code was compiled in following environment:

Gcc : version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)
Kernel Version: 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP

With Configure string:
./configure --prefix=$BIN_DIR --without-zlib --without-readline

I built debug build using CFLAGS="-g" for configuring and now trying to
step through for finding failure location.

Thanks & Regards,
Vikram

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 4:45 PM
To: Vikram Patil
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Floating point exception in initdb

"Vikram Patil" <vpatil@actuate.com> writes:

I am getting an floating exception while running initdb from

custom

built postgresql . I am using suse linux for installing postgresql.

initDB.sh: line 14: 20285 Floating point

exception$pgsql_home/bin/initdb

-A password -U postgres --pwfile="pwFile" -E UTF8 -D postgresql/data
/log/initDB.log

Hm, dunno what's causing that ...

Work around gcc bug that causes "floating-point exception" instead of
"division by zero" on some platforms (Tom)

... but I'm quite sure that patch won't fix it for you, because it was
in code that wouldn't get executed during initdb.

What compiler are you using, for what hardware? Did you use any
nondefault configure or compiler switches? Have you modified the
Postgres sources at all? Which step of initdb gets the failure?
Try running that step under gdb so you can get a stack trace pointing
at the failure location.

regards, tom lane

"Vikram Patil" <vpatil@actuate.com> writes:

Thanks for reply Tom. I am having source code form 8.4.1 version which
is released on 09-09-2009.

I was able to install it on Redhat machine without any issues. But I am
facing this issue while running initdb on Suse Ent. 9 machine.( Linux
2.6.5-7.97-smp #1 SMP Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux )

Source code was compiled in following environment:
Gcc : version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)
Kernel Version: 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP

[ squint... ] This isn't totally clear, but are you saying you compiled
on some semi-recent Red Hat platform and are trying to run the resulting
executables on an old SUSE platform? I wouldn't really expect that to
work. glibc's API changes from time to time. Would be better to
compile on the same release you're planning to run on.

regards, tom lane

Tom,

Thanks for guidelines. I checked glibc versions. I am currently using
glibc libarary 2.3.3 on SUSE platform while build machine I used has
glibc library 2.5 . I will try to install it on SUSE machine with glibc
library 2.5.

Thanks & Regards,
Vikram

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 5:29 PM
To: Vikram Patil
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Floating point exception in initdb

"Vikram Patil" <vpatil@actuate.com> writes:

Thanks for reply Tom. I am having source code form 8.4.1 version which
is released on 09-09-2009.

I was able to install it on Redhat machine without any issues. But I

am

facing this issue while running initdb on Suse Ent. 9 machine.( Linux
2.6.5-7.97-smp #1 SMP Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux )

Source code was compiled in following environment:
Gcc : version 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)
Kernel Version: 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP

[ squint... ] This isn't totally clear, but are you saying you compiled
on some semi-recent Red Hat platform and are trying to run the resulting
executables on an old SUSE platform? I wouldn't really expect that to
work. glibc's API changes from time to time. Would be better to
compile on the same release you're planning to run on.

regards, tom lane