gkrellm crashes upon start with "floating point exception"

[Jan Rüegg]

Binary package hint: gkrellm

I have no idea what changed, but since the last boot, gkrellm crashes upon starting with the message:

"gkrellm floating point exception: (initializing)" in the console and in a xmessage window.

strangely, starting it with "gkrellm --demo" works fine.

With debugging output:

jan@MacBuntu:~$ gkrellm -d 3
--- GKrellM 2.3.1 ---
diskstats=1 partition_stats=0 sysfs_stats=0
gkrellm floating point exception: (initializing)
Aborted

I'm using a 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 with backports enabled.

[Richard Cavell (richardcavell)]

I confirm this bug. I'm running 640bit 9.10 alpha 3. I've used gkrellm for ages on Jaunty and after upgrading to Karmic, it started doing this. I confirm that gkrellm --demo works for me. I'm also on a MacBook.

[Richard Cavell (richardcavell)]

I meant to say 64-bit, of course.

[Moræus (moraus)]

I had this problem, and solved it by making sure I was getting measurements from the battery. I think there is an issue with gkrellm when battery status is zero. This was on a macbookPro 2.2, and by resetting the power management in hardware, gkrellm fired up normally. To reset the pwr mgn: shut down -> remove battery and power cable -> press and hold the pwr button for 5 seconds.

[vontrapp (von-fugal)]

I can confirm it's a battery problem. The floating point exception is a divide by zero when the total battery charge is 0 (current charge / total charge). Here is a patch that fixes it.