My computer is regularly segfaulting. It runs fine for a while, but then when I try to execute an xterm, or netscape, or ncftp (for example) I get segfaults. I shutdown X, and try to reboot (using ctrl-alt-del), but that won't work either. I try to "su" to root to execute reboot directly, but that either segfaults or gives me an error message of something like "error with dynamic linker". I'll write down that specific error message the next time it happens. Finally, I just turn it off and on again, and then it's fine for a while. This started happening about 2 weeks ago. For a long time before that everything was very stable. I haven't made any hardware changes, and I was using unstable for months before that, so it's not due to a distribution upgrade.
I can't think of anything specific that I'm doing every time that it does this. Sometimes I'll go home for the night when everything is working fine, and when I come back the next morning I have this problem. Other times, it happens while I'm working. I realize I haven't given much information. If someone can suggest a solution, or give me some tips for how to debug this, I'd really appreciate it. I'm running woody with kernel 2.2.14. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452