At 09:26 AM 11/5/02 +0800, Peter wrote:
Hi,In RH 7.3 the program tkdesk will not open any longer. Only the message 'Segmentation fault' shows up immediately after giving the command tkdesk. Why would that be and how could it be corrected?
How basic is your question, Peter? I'll assume fairly basic.
A segfault occurs when a process attempts to access a location in memory that has not been assigned to it by the kernel. I don't know all the reasons a process may segfault (or maybe I do, but in that case I don't know that I know), but the ones I know of are --
a programming error in the application (for example, attempting to read or write to an element of an array greater than the size of the array)
a programming error in a shared library that the application uses
a hardware problem, typically bad RAM, that causes a memory address to be corrupted
a swap-space problem, causing an error similar to the hardware (RAM) problem above
Each source has a distinct (and, I trust, obvious, though not trivial) solution.
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