Bug 435309 - Floating point exception sometimes when running rpm
Summary: Floating point exception sometimes when running rpm
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Panu Matilainen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-28 16:53 UTC by Jan ONDREJ
Modified: 2009-01-07 09:29 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-11-26 10:04:20 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
rpm core file (612.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-02-28 16:53 UTC, Jan ONDREJ
no flags Details
strace output (22.52 KB, text/plain)
2008-02-28 16:54 UTC, Jan ONDREJ
no flags Details

Description Jan ONDREJ 2008-02-28 16:53:27 UTC
Description of problem:
When running rpm on one of my xen virtual machines, rpm fails with "Floating
point exception". Everything other works well on my machines, no crashes,
programs are working.
When this happens, for aprox. 90% running rpm or yum (I don't know about other
programs) fails with FPE. 10% works well.
After some time this fixes itself automatically and then I am unable to
reproduce this bug.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2.2-7.fc8
kernel-xen-2.6.21.7-2.fc8

How reproducible:
sometimes :(

Steps to Reproduce:
I don't know, how to reproduce. This not happening always, just sometimes.
Run "rpm" without parameters.
  
Actual results:
Floating point exception

Expected results:
rpm help page output

Additional info:
strace output and core file is attached.

Comment 1 Jan ONDREJ 2008-02-28 16:53:27 UTC
Created attachment 296235 [details]
rpm core file

Comment 2 Jan ONDREJ 2008-02-28 16:54:21 UTC
Created attachment 296236 [details]
strace output

Comment 3 Jan ONDREJ 2008-02-29 16:58:12 UTC
Update: there problems disappear immediatelly after stopping ntpd.
Starts aprox. 1-3 minutes after starting ntpd.

May be it is a bug of any library in linux + xen + ntpd.


Comment 4 Panu Matilainen 2008-04-21 09:06:55 UTC
Ok, found it. Comes from statistics calculation: 

        sum_usecs += rpmswDiff(rpmswNow(&end), &begin);
        rpmsw_type = 1;

        /* Compute cycles/usec */
        rpmsw_cycles = sum_cycles/sum_usecs;

If there's no difference between begin of timing and "now", it'll cause division
by zero. Normally there is of course a difference, ntpd being involved kinda
explains.

Comment 5 Panu Matilainen 2008-05-08 06:41:39 UTC
Fixed upstream

Comment 6 Rolf Linder 2008-07-09 18:09:45 UTC
Do have same problem here....Fedora8 running as dom0 but WITHOUT ntpd....I could
sometimes resolv this by restarting xend and libvirt...but only some times.

I've discovered at running yum....(probably yum update)....

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Comment 8 Jan ONDREJ 2008-11-26 10:04:20 UTC
I can't reproduce this bug some time. I think this has been fixed and this bug can be closed.
Thank you.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2009-01-07 09:28:45 UTC
rpm-4.4.2.3-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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