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ID:248472 Feb 4 2012, 1:44 pm Keywords: byond, linux (See the best response by Nadrew.)
DivineTraveller	I just tried a fresh install of BYOND on a linux server, and every time I try to run DreamDaemon or DreamDownload, I get "Floating point exception" (as seen here). What's going wrong, and how can I fix it?

#1 Feb 4 2012, 4:12 pm

Higoten

The Internet is being very unhelpful with what "Floating point expectation" is suppose to mean.

But, from what I could make out, it sounds like this error can occur from trying to run a 32 bit program on a 64 bit sever in the wrong environment, or an AMD processor near overheating.

So, you could try looking into both of those. Sorry I don't have any other leads (I actually know absolutely nothing of Linux).

#2 Feb 4 2012, 8:20 pm
Flame Sage	I believe BYOND only comes in the 32-bit variant. I don't believe it's been compiled for a 64-bit Linux environment. This almost looks be something wrong with the BYOND software itself, nothing you did? Does this happen on another machine with the same zip?

#3 Feb 4 2012, 8:22 pm

In response to Higoten (#1)

OrangeWeapons

Higoten wrote:

The Internet is being very unhelpful with what "Floating point expectation" is suppose to mean.

But, from what I could make out, it sounds like this error can occur from trying to run a 32 bit program on a 64 bit sever in the wrong environment, or an AMD processor near overheating.

So, you could try looking into both of those. Sorry I don't have any other leads (I actually know absolutely nothing of Linux).

So did you just Google something for him that you know nothing about?...

#4 Feb 4 2012, 8:46 pm In response to OrangeWeapons (#3)
Higoten	OrangeWeapons wrote: So did you just Google something for him that you know nothing about?... That is correct, I did rummage through a Google search for roughly 25 minutes, looking for people who have received a similar error, in roughly the same conditions, and found a answer to that problem.

#5 Feb 4 2012, 8:52 pm In response to Higoten (#4)
OrangeWeapons	Higoten wrote: OrangeWeapons wrote: So did you just Google something for him that you know nothing about?... That is correct, I did rummage through a Google search for roughly 25 minutes, looking for people who have received a similar error, in roughly the same conditions, and found a answer to that problem. GGG

#6 Feb 4 2012, 9:37 pm

Mikau

DivineTraveller wrote:

I just tried a fresh install of BYOND on a linux server, and every time I try to run DreamDaemon or DreamDownload, I get "Floating point exception" (as seen here).

What's going wrong, and how can I fix it?

I'm assuming you copied the libbyond.so and libext.so files to the /lib folder, otherwise it would be complaining about that. My only assumption would be the same as Flame Sage, that you're running 64 bit linux, and it's not liking that.

I downloaded, installed, and tested this on 32bit Ubuntu 11.10 and had no problems.

BYOND 4.0 Public (Version 492.1116) on Linux

#7 Feb 4 2012, 9:51 pm Best response
Nadrew	You should make sure you have the 'ia32-libs' package installed as well.

#8 Feb 5 2012, 9:42 am In response to Flame Sage (#2)
DivineTraveller	I don't really know -- I don't have another machine with similar specs to test it on. I'm fairly certain I'm running 32-bit (clicky). I also do not have root, so I can't install anything system-wide.