[Chimera-users] "Floating exception" error message

[Greg Couch]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Dong-Yan Tan wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We have just installed chimera-1.2470-linux.exe in our Linux computer
> (SUSE LINUX 9.0 ). We keep getting error message "Floating exeptions" when
> we are just trying to open a PDB file and the program quits automatically.
> Has anyone encountered such a problem or have clues about where to look
> for solutions? Thanks a lot.
>
> Dong-Yan

This sounds like a Linux kernel bug or C library bug.  Please make sure 
that you have applied all of the recommended patches to your SUSE system 
(use the yast program to update it).  In particular, there is a security 
patch related to floating point exceptions, that should be applied 
(<http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_17_kernel.html>). 
It's not clear if that patch will fix the problem, so please apply the 
rest.

I would also expect upgrading to the current SUSE Linux to fix the 
problem.

 	Good luck,

 	Greg Couch
 	UCSF Computer Graphics Lab