[SAC-HELP] Floating Point Exception

[Arthur Snoke]

I do not work on Linux and we do not have any SuSE machines readily 
accessible, so I can only make suggestions.

The simplest thing for you would probably be to get the source 
distribution and build it on your system.

You say you used a previous 32-bit binary on the same machine.  There is a 
32-bit binary of SAC v101.5c you might try.  (I am not sure how this can 
work with mixing libraries, but I am told that in principle a 32-bit 
binary can run on a 64-bit machine.)

My impression is that there is enough variation among the different flavors 
of Linux that it is amazing that our pre-built binaries run on as many 
platforms as they do.  In the original v101.5 the 64-bit binary did not 
work on older systems because of library issues.  Your is the first report 
of a problem with v101.5c.  If anyone else has a machine running 64-bit 
SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.3 and has not had the problem you report, 
it would be useful if they could contact the list.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Schubitzke, Paul W wrote:
> 
> We have just attempted to run sac-101.5c-linux_x86_64 on a machine 
> running 64-bit SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.3, and are immediately 
> greeted with a floating point exception.
> 
> A previous 32 bit version of SAC ran ok on this machine.
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> # cat /etc/SuSE-release
> 
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (x86_64)
> VERSION = 10
> PATCHLEVEL = 3
> 
> The user’s .bashrc contains the following lines:
> 
> export SACHOME=/home/USER/SAC
> source ${SACHOME}/bin/sacinit.sh
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Paul Schubitzke
> Systems Administrator – Catapult Technology
> Bureau of Reclamation – Geophysics and Seismotectonics
> pschubitzke at usbr.gov
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