[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#412043: base: floating point exception

[Amaya]

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Hi, Nicolas

Nicolas wrote:
>  I get these errors with some programs :
>  % amarok
>  zsh: floating point exception  amarok
>  % kaffeine
>  kded: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
>  kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
>  ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
>  ERROR: Communication problem with kaffeine, it probably crashed.
>  zsh: exit 255   kaffeine
>  % totem
>  zsh: exit 1     totem << crashes at the start too
>  % VirtualBox
>  zsh: floating point exception  VirtualBox
>  % kget
>  DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-22200' to 'kded'
>  kded: ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed.
>  ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Registering failed!
>  ERROR: Communication problem with kget, it probably crashed.
>  zsh: exit 255   kget
>  % qtconfig-qt3
>  zsh: floating point exception  qtconfig-qt3
> 
>  Apparently, the concerned programs are linked to qt, there's just an
>  exception : totem

Thanks for reporting this bug. 

I have talked to some of the KDE maintainers and they suggested that you
try to move away your .qt directory and try if this still happens. 

Anyway, maybe running strace and attaching the output to this bug report
would be helpful.

>  It seems the problem occurs since I dist-upgraded but not sure at all...

Yes, we all know the feeling :)

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