[Zope] Tru64 problems

[Uwe Schuerkamp]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:28:03AM +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Uwe Schuerkamp writes:
>  > Hi folks, 
>  > 
>  > whenever I try to "find objects" within a Zcatalog on Tru64 Unix
>  > (python 2.1.3 compiled from source), Zope crashes with the following
>  > error:
>  > 
>  > zdaemon Process 10468 terminated by signal SIGFPE(8)
> This is a "Floating Point Exception", probably an underflow.
> 
> I remember that floating point exceptions (at least for underflow)
> can be controlled via a system call.
> Check your manual pages and see whether (1) I am right and (2) whether
> the system call is available in Python.
> 
> 
> Dieter

Hi Dieter,

a bit of googling turned up the following URL: 

http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/dev-archive.nsf/b1b1e2c766c8f6c7802568c1006328f1/2331c7b1e01b3b4b80256c290060890b?OpenDocument

so it looks like there is indeed a problem with Python on that
platform, although in my case it's based on DEC HW (Alpha platform). 

The problem seems to be specific to adding "summary" to the meta_type
list in a Catalog, and re-indexing on that field. Is there any way to
provide more Zope-specific info on this problem? 

Cheers & thanks for your answer, 

uwe 

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