[Zope] Tru64 problems

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 00:28:03 +0100


Uwe Schuerkamp writes:
 > Hi folks, 
 > 
 > whenever I try to "find objects" within a Zcatalog on Tru64 Unix
 > (python 2.1.3 compiled from source), Zope crashes with the following
 > error:
 > 
 > zdaemon Process 10468 terminated by signal SIGFPE(8)
This is a "Floating Point Exception", probably an underflow.

I remember that floating point exceptions (at least for underflow)
can be controlled via a system call.
Check your manual pages and see whether (1) I am right and (2) whether
the system call is available in Python.


Dieter