Bug 448409

Summary: regxpcom: floating-point assist fault when upgrading to RHEL4.7
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component: seamonkeyAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 4.7CC: ddumas, stransky
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Description Alexander Todorov 2008-05-26 15:27:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
When upgrading from RHEL4.6/AS to 4.7/AS with up2date there are numerous
messages of the type:
regxpcom: floating-point assist fault following the line 
updating: seamonkey-* package (which comes from up2date).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
seamonkey-1.0.9-19

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install rhel4-u6/as (@everything or seamonkey packages)
2. upgrade to latest 4.7
3.
  
Actual results:
numerous messages which look like error messages (or at least sounds very error-ish)

Expected results:
No error messages

Additional info:
I suspect %post script is causing these. Seen on ia64 and x86_64 (i think).
Seen after almost every seamonkey package is upgraded.
Comment 1 Alexander Todorov 2008-05-26 15:27:49 UTC 
Created attachment 306686 [details]
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Comment 3 Ben Levenson 2008-05-28 22:08:27 UTC 
another data point: I can't reproduce this with /bin/rpm on ia64-4as-6-m2:

.qa.[root@ia64-4as-6-m2 2008:8316]# rpm -Uvh new-files.manual.list 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:nspr                   ########################################### [  7%]
   2:nss                    ########################################### [ 13%]
   3:seamonkey              ########################################### [ 20%]
   4:seamonkey-mail         ########################################### [ 27%]
   5:seamonkey-devel        ########################################### [ 33%]
   6:seamonkey-dom-inspector########################################### [ 40%]
   7:nss-debuginfo          ########################################### [ 47%]
   8:nspr-debuginfo         ########################################### [ 53%]
   9:seamonkey-debuginfo    ########################################### [ 60%]
  10:nspr                   ########################################### [ 67%]
  11:nspr-devel             ########################################### [ 73%]
  12:nss                    ########################################### [ 80%]
  13:nss-devel              ########################################### [ 87%]
  14:seamonkey-chat         ########################################### [ 93%]
  15:seamonkey-js-debugger  ########################################### [100%]
Comment 4 Ben Levenson 2008-05-28 22:10:16 UTC 
and seamonkey appears to work as expected *after* the upgrade
Comment 5 Alexander Todorov 2008-05-29 08:22:30 UTC 
I'm not so sure about x86_64 but I'm sure I see this on my ia64 test machine.
As per comment #3 could be machine dependent.

Bug #147980 talks about compiling without the -ftz flag causing a similar issue.
Is this a matter of just adding these flags in the Makefile for seamonkey?
Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2008-07-22 16:07:26 UTC 
Explanation for ia64 is on http://i-cluster2.inrialpes.fr/doc/misc/fpswa.txt and
the author suggests compiling on ia64 with -ffast-math option for gcc. No
comments whether it is sane, read the document for (very) thorough explanation.
Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2008-10-31 16:38:20 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
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Comment 9 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 15:55:37 UTC 
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