I'm having this problem too on the living room desktop (grep cpuinfo pasted below). However, I have no problems when running a VM on a 64-bit machine. This desktop is pretty old, so I don't know if that might be a problem.
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063350 Title: curl corrupts floating point context To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pycurl/+bug/1063350/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs