[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ed Cogburn writes: > > I occasionally see a "general protection failure" (or something similar) > > message that starts with a string of zeros. As long as they are > > transient, they are not serious (but indicate a weakness in dpkg) > > No they don't. A "general protection failure" can never be caused by an > application. It is either a kernel bug or (more likely) a hardware > problem.
As I said later in my message, I'm not sure of the error messages 'name' or origin, because I haven't seen one of these failures recently. It can't be hardware though, these transient errors began when I was using my older computer. -- Ed C.