This one is a little beyond me. I do not know if the seg fault matters
or not. But it may be indicating a problem developing. Do you use
another OS on the same machine, and if so, do you get the same problem
at shutdown? If not, you could be experiencing file corruption under
Linux, and maybe a new install could fix things up ok. Hopefully,
someone else has greater knowledge on this subject, and can be of help.
I think a seg fault could meaan a flakey mem chip, but if so, it would
show up in another OS as well. Thats why I asked the previous question
about the other OS. Don't get upset about hardware just yet, and see if
the trouble can be fixed with the software. Sorry I couldn't be any help
this time,
Ernie
bay56 wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 10:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
>
> > I hope this helps. You can learn about the switches for the tar command
> > in the man page. Read it using "man tar". You can also read about the mv
> > command with "man mv". and mkdir with "man mkdir". To learn about the
> > man command run "man man". There is a wealth of great info in the man
> > pages. Thaat is where I have found 99% of what I need to know. They are
> > not easy to understand all the time, but once you get used to them it is
> > not so bad.
>
> Thanks, I have since discovered that my system may have another problem -
> this tar command (generically) appears to do nothing, there is a long wait
> while nothing actually happens! On the plus side it does not actually crash
> ;-) and ctrl C gets me the cursor back.
>
> I noticed that the system has also now generated a core file, and I get the
> impression that this is not such good news! For now I have simply deleted
> it - because I have no idea how to use it usefully, and suspect that a
> reinstall is on the cards quite soon. It has not always done this, so I am
> fairly hopeful I can install it without the tendency to eject the warp core!
> Deleteing at least allows me to see how often it does this. - so far just
> once.
>
> I have noticed also that when I issue "shutdown -h now" that it claims the
> sytem is halted - but after a brief pause it then says it can't acknowledge
> a page request of some kind, and after much meaningless (to me at least)
> output finishes off suggesting there's a segmentation error. Now this as far
> as I know it has always done, but I have not seen the core dump go into
> action before.
>
> Since it's already claimed that system has been halted, does the seg error
> actually matter anymore? After all it shows up after everyone else has gone
> home for the day! (ie after halted)
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
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