Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault.
On Saturday 07 August 2004 06:45 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Suddenly xmms, gkrellm, gimp and probably others wont start, checking with a terminal shows seg. faults. Kontact, vi starts fine. Closing session and reopening doesn't help and neither does rebooting. Is this with all users? You only named gtk apps above, does the same happen with KDE apps. Have you made any hardware changes like added or removed memory? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault???
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:11:59 +0200 Tenchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is the original: - Hi everyone! I installed MDK 8.2 on one of my friend's computer. The install went pretty good. Everything seemed to work except for the soundcard. I downloaded drivers for it, so it works now too. I started setting it up with programs(nvidia drivers, openoffice, krusader etc...)and everything worked fine until I did a complete shutdown and a restart. There were no errors, but after that the Mandrake Control Center and rpmdrake exits with segmentation fault right before the password checking. When I started them in the terminal it simply said: segmentation fault. This is a big problem for me as I don't want to mess with text file config. If you haven't already, try su'ing to root in the terminal and then starting mcc or rpmdrake from there. This will skip asking for the root password, which is one possible source of trouble. If it still doesn't work, try actually loging in as root and running mcc or rpmdrake from an entirely root environment. One of the 8.2 betas had a brief mcc bug where environment variables were not properly set outside of kde. Maybe this is a similar problem? (of course, normally you should almost never log in as root, but since we are bug-hunting here, it might be okay. just be sure to log out and log back in as your regular user before playing games or surfing the net. :-) -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault???
On Friday 09 August 2002 05:21 am, you wrote: Hi! I sent a letter 3 days ago about a seg. fault problem. Nobody encountered anything like this before? Can anyone help me? T. perhaps there was not enough info in the original post (why not quote it again?) and then again, if you don't get an answer on the newbie list, perhaps the problem was to complicated and could be reposted to the expert list? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Segmentation fault???
Ok, here is the original: - Hi everyone! I installed MDK 8.2 on one of my friend's computer. The install went pretty good. Everything seemed to work except for the soundcard. I downloaded drivers for it, so it works now too. I started setting it up with programs (nvidia drivers, openoffice, krusader etc...)and everything worked fine until I did a complete shutdown and a restart. There were no errors, but after that the Mandrake Control Center and rpmdrake exits with segmentation fault right before the password checking. When I started them in the terminal it simply said: segmentation fault. This is a big problem for me as I don't want to mess with text file config. The hardware is: motherboard: Asus TUSL-2C CPU: Intel Celeron II, 800 MHz RAM: 256 MB SDRAM, 133 MHz, works now on 100 MHz(Samsung?) CD-ROM: TEAC 40x CD-RW: TEAC 24x-10x-40x Winchester: Quntum Fireball. 5400 RPM, works now on ATA66 Video card: Asus GeForce 2 MX. Sound card: Diamond Monster Sound MX300 In the BIOS the following are disabled: modem, sound, COM ports, LPT 2 LAN cards: Linksys 10/100 Mbit, UTP Please give suggestions as how to solve my problem. Best regards, T. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of et Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault??? On Friday 09 August 2002 05:21 am, you wrote: Hi! I sent a letter 3 days ago about a seg. fault problem. Nobody encountered anything like this before? Can anyone help me? T. perhaps there was not enough info in the original post (why not quote it again?) and then again, if you don't get an answer on the newbie list, perhaps the problem was to complicated and could be reposted to the expert list? --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 2002.07.24. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 2002.07.24. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault???
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:11:59 +0200 Tenchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is the original: - Hi everyone! I installed MDK 8.2 on one of my friend's computer. The install went pretty good. Everything seemed to work except for the soundcard. I downloaded drivers for it, so it works now too. I started setting it up with programs (nvidia drivers, openoffice, krusader etc...)and everything worked fine until I did a complete shutdown and a restart. There were no errors, but after that the Mandrake Control Center and rpmdrake exits with segmentation fault right before the password checking. When I started them in the terminal it simply said: segmentation fault. This is a big problem for me as I don't want to mess with text file config. i've seen this happen, too. there's no way of explaining this other than 'it segfaults'. my problem used to happen by simply adding a new ISA card to my system. it just plain crashes. i don't think there's much of a fix to it, just try deleting your temp files, ( /tmp, /usr/tmp, ~/tmp and so on ) and also since the system was recently installed, there won't be much loss if you delete /var also. see if that helps. other than that, there is reinstalling all drak* tools maybe someone that actually knows how these programs work can tell you more ( maybe there's actually a fix which i didn't know about ) but whenever i get those segfaults, i'm simply forced to undo what made them stop working. Damian -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
I take it I should be able to use fsck (formatted correctly) *after* completing the shutdown. It seemed Well, there's no sense in fscking the drives prior to shutdown - that is done on power up. Assuming that you can shut down properly, however, part of that process unmounts the partitions and then upon the next reboot, these partitions are marked 'clean', and the fsck is bypassed. when I tried it again, using the Rescue option on the install CD to start, that entering fsck produced a no such command (or whatever). That's strange. fsck should be there. Maybe it's 'e2fsck' but that should just be an alias for the former anyway. It sounds as if you have been able to recover from this kind of problem in that way. Tha would give me some peace of mind. Plenty of times. I just log in to the rescue shell as directed, type fsck and the partition name, wait for it to do its thing, and then I exit out of the rescue shell and let it continue. But under normal operation you shouldn't have to do this. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Well, I'm reinstalled and have rebooted a half dozen times in the past day or two with no more problems (yet), so maybe... --- JDRadio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pete, Wish I had more idea's but I'm fresh oout. JoeD Peter Rymshaw wrote: Sent a message last night saying that all was fine now that (1) I erased all Linux partitions and then reinstall. (That allowd LILO to work.) and did the VIA bug fix (That eliminated the shut down error.) But then... BACK TO ZERO (although problem not identical) I was going to send this message saying that both the LILO problem and the shutdown problem were now fixed, and mention as an aside some business of the limitations of using rescue mode. But before I could do that, Linux locked up on me completely (as had sometimes happened in the past) and I had now choice but to turn off the machine. When I restarted (LILO still OK), it went through the process of making fixes until it got to this: Checking root file system/dev/hdc1 contains a file system with ferrors, check forced /dev/hdc1 Unattached mode 274111 /dev/hdc1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY, RUN fsck manually, (without -a or -p options) Failed to check file system. Do you want to repair the errors (beware...) So, after a very brief period, I'm out of action again. I don't think that I can access the the file that I fixed from Rescue, so would have reinstall again. And, of course, I would still have the old problem when shuting down without reboot. Help anyone! --- JDRadio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, When you boot the boot disk, it should come to a prompt boot: type linux enter and it should now be booting. Carroll is right about the VIA bug but don't know if it applies as you never said what the motherboard chipset was, or I missed it as I had to reinstall linux CAUSE I downloaded and installed the latest Mandrake FREQ dated 8-10-01 and it was worse then the last Freq update dated 06-01 so buyer beware... Also 3 others had the same problems. DO NOT INSTALL MANDRAKE FREQ 8-10-01.. By the way KDE 2.2 is out and that looks great but I haven't installed it yet.. (I wonder why?) JoeD Peter Rymshaw wrote: Thanks Carroll: I didn't know about this, but bookmarked it so I can apply it later. Right now I'm having problems with lilo and cab only access rescue command line, from which I have been shutting down by ctrl-alt-del. The problem has never shown up with this or a Restart shutdown, so I couldn't test the results if I did it now. Whenever I get lilo working (can't seem to find lilo.conf)... --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter: Maybe you've already sorted this out, but just in case go to nlpagan.net/linux.htm. Towards the end of the page (look for a link to Mandrake User Organization), there's a note about repairing this problem that affects some VIA-based systems. I've never found out why it works, but it does. Regards, Carroll Peter Rymshaw wrote: big snip Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer === message truncated === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Well we can bet we are working on different problems with each reinstall and you are learing a LOT too. this boot error is from a bad spot in the hard drive that may either have caused the freze or been the cause of the freeze. when you say linux locked up you do mean that the mouse and the keyboard had NO operation, and even trying [Ctrl+Alt+f4] did not bring you to a text console? if it does get you to a text console, you could try and run top to see what was using all the computer's processes or memory to keep other programs from running. you can run fsk on the drive as root, or the next time you reinstall try using ReiserFS, as it recovers without the ned to run a filesystem checker. FSK (FileSystemchecK) is in some ways like scandisk in windows, in that when you do not shutdown correctly (with out unmounting the hard drives) it wants to check the hard drive for errors. it found one. On Saturday 18 August 2001 12:25, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Sent a message last night saying that all was fine now that (1) I erased all Linux partitions and then reinstall. (That allowd LILO to work.) and did the VIA bug fix (That eliminated the shut down error.) But then... BACK TO ZERO (although problem not identical) I was going to send this message saying that both the LILO problem and the shutdown problem were now fixed, and mention as an aside some business of the limitations of using rescue mode. But before I could do that, Linux locked up on me completely (as had sometimes happened in the past) and I had now choice but to turn off the machine. When I restarted (LILO still OK), it went through the process of making fixes until it got to this: Checking root file system/dev/hdc1 contains a file system with ferrors, check forced /dev/hdc1 Unattached mode 274111 /dev/hdc1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY, RUN fsck manually, (without -a or -p options) Failed to check file system. Do you want to repair the errors (beware...) So, after a very brief period, I'm out of action again. I don't think that I can access the the file that I fixed from Rescue, so would have reinstall again. And, of course, I would still have the old problem when shuting down without reboot. Help anyone! --- JDRadio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, When you boot the boot disk, it should come to a prompt boot: type linux enter and it should now be booting. Carroll is right about the VIA bug but don't know if it applies as you never said what the motherboard chipset was, or I missed it as I had to reinstall linux CAUSE I downloaded and installed the latest Mandrake FREQ dated 8-10-01 and it was worse then the last Freq update dated 06-01 so buyer beware... Also 3 others had the same problems. DO NOT INSTALL MANDRAKE FREQ 8-10-01.. By the way KDE 2.2 is out and that looks great but I haven't installed it yet.. (I wonder why?) JoeD Peter Rymshaw wrote: Thanks Carroll: I didn't know about this, but bookmarked it so I can apply it later. Right now I'm having problems with lilo and cab only access rescue command line, from which I have been shutting down by ctrl-alt-del. The problem has never shown up with this or a Restart shutdown, so I couldn't test the results if I did it now. Whenever I get lilo working (can't seem to find lilo.conf)... --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter: Maybe you've already sorted this out, but just in case go to nlpagan.net/linux.htm. Towards the end of the page (look for a link to Mandrake User Organization), there's a note about repairing this problem that affects some VIA-based systems. I've never found out why it works, but it does. Regards, Carroll Peter Rymshaw wrote: big snip Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Yes, it locked up completely--no keyboard or mouse access. I simply typed fsck (nothing else) when it halted at the first reboot attempt. I didn't record the response, but it was one line and didn't seem to be an I don't understand you. But it didn't seem to make any difference. As you probably suspect, I got impatiant and reinstalled again. I'm warry of making the change again in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt as I don't know whether this caused the freeze during operation as well as eliminating the shutdown problem. For now, I'm just selecting Reboot (which does the same thing as contr/alt/del does) and then watch the screen and turn off the computer after it reaches the restarting sequence (before anything has started up). This is frustrating, though. Besides for wanting to seperate myself from the Microsoft dependency and feeding the monopoly, and instead wanting to support the open principles of Linux, I also wanted to get the much claimed stability. But I'm having even more crashes, and, unlike Win98, Linux doesn't seem to be able to fix many of them even on rebooting. Also, it would be nice if there was a graphic equivalent of Window's :Safe Mode. Well, I'm not giving up yet. Thanks. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well we can bet we are working on different problems with each reinstall and you are learing a LOT too. this boot error is from a bad spot in the hard drive that may either have caused the freze or been the cause of the freeze. when you say linux locked up you do mean that the mouse and the keyboard had NO operation, and even trying [Ctrl+Alt+f4] did not bring you to a text console? if it does get you to a text console, you could try and run top to see what was using all the computer's processes or memory to keep other programs from running. you can run fsk on the drive as root, or the next time you reinstall try using ReiserFS, as it recovers without the ned to run a filesystem checker. FSK (FileSystemchecK) is in some ways like scandisk in windows, in that when you do not shutdown correctly (with out unmounting the hard drives) it wants to check the hard drive for errors. it found one. On Saturday 18 August 2001 12:25, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Sent a message last night saying that all was fine now that (1) I erased all Linux partitions and then reinstall. (That allowd LILO to work.) and did the VIA bug fix (That eliminated the shut down error.) But then... BACK TO ZERO (although problem not identical) I was going to send this message saying that both the LILO problem and the shutdown problem were now fixed, and mention as an aside some business of the limitations of using rescue mode. But before I could do that, Linux locked up on me completely (as had sometimes happened in the past) and I had now choice but to turn off the machine. When I restarted (LILO still OK), it went through the process of making fixes until it got to this: Checking root file system/dev/hdc1 contains a file system with ferrors, check forced /dev/hdc1 Unattached mode 274111 /dev/hdc1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY, RUN fsck manually, (without -a or -p options) Failed to check file system. Do you want to repair the errors (beware...) So, after a very brief period, I'm out of action again. I don't think that I can access the the file that I fixed from Rescue, so would have reinstall again. And, of course, I would still have the old problem when shuting down without reboot. Help anyone! --- JDRadio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, When you boot the boot disk, it should come to a prompt boot: type linux enter and it should now be booting. Carroll is right about the VIA bug but don't know if it applies as you never said what the motherboard chipset was, or I missed it as I had to reinstall linux CAUSE I downloaded and installed the latest Mandrake FREQ dated 8-10-01 and it was worse then the last Freq update dated 06-01 so buyer beware... Also 3 others had the same problems. DO NOT INSTALL MANDRAKE FREQ 8-10-01.. By the way KDE 2.2 is out and that looks great but I haven't installed it yet.. (I wonder why?) JoeD Peter Rymshaw wrote: Thanks Carroll: I didn't know about this, but bookmarked it so I can apply it later. Right now I'm having problems with lilo and cab only access rescue command line, from which I have been shutting down by ctrl-alt-del. The problem has never shown up with this or a Restart shutdown, so I couldn't test the results if I did it now. Whenever I get lilo working (can't seem to find lilo.conf)... --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter: Maybe you've already sorted this out, but just in case go to nlpagan.net/linux.htm. Towards the end of the page (look for
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Thanks. I'll add to my file. But both hard drives are less than 6 months old and the mobo only a little older. In fact, about the only thing old on the box is the box itself--new motherboard, processor, memory, cd-rom, floppy. --- erylon hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first guess is your hard drive is going south--second guess is a bad ide controller on the mobo. Even if it works in Windoze--that's not a good indication--linux is less forgiving of bad hardware because the system is written to use it to the max of its capabilities. eryl Saturday 18 August 2001 09:25, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Checking root file system/dev/hdc1 contains a file system with ferrors, check forced /dev/hdc1 Unattached mode 274111 /dev/hdc1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY, RUN fsck manually, (without -a or -p options) Failed to check file system. Do you want to repair the errors (beware...) So, after a very brief period, I'm out of action again. Help anyone! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Thanks. I'll add to my file. But both hard drives are less than 6 months old and the mobo only a little Peter - did you run the fsck as it suggested? These types of errors are fairly rare (if you shut down correctly) but they in themselves don't seem to be an indicatino of bad hardware. I'd reboot and follow through with the fsck - just type 'fsck /dev/hdc1' without any options. Once the system goes through the filesystem check, you'll be able to reboot to a (hopefully) clean system. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
I simply typed fsck (nothing else) when it halted at the first reboot attempt. I didn't record the fsck requires at least one argument - the partition to check. As you probably suspect, I got impatiant and reinstalled again. I'm warry of making the change again in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt as I don't know whether I've never gotten my mandrake setup to shut down completely clean. I've not had this problem with other distributions I've used in the past. But with mandrake (7.2) it just doesn't seem to get to the point where it can shut the power off, so I have to reset and run through the fsck procedures. much claimed stability. But I'm having even more crashes, and, unlike Win98, Linux doesn't seem to be able to fix many of them even on rebooting. Also, it That's strange - for me, ext2 has been far more stable than dosfs/windows has been. I haven't even had to reboot for some two months now. would be nice if there was a graphic equivalent of Window's :Safe Mode. I am not sure what that would accomplish. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
I take it I should be able to use fsck (formatted correctly) *after* completing the shutdown. It seemed when I tried it again, using the Rescue option on the install CD to start, that entering fsck produced a no such command (or whatever). It sounds as if you have been able to recover from this kind of problem in that way. Tha would give me some peace of mind. What's nice about Windows Safe mode is that it's not a command line, tht's all. Thanks. --- David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I simply typed fsck (nothing else) when it halted at the first reboot attempt. I didn't record the fsck requires at least one argument - the partition to check. As you probably suspect, I got impatiant and reinstalled again. I'm warry of making the change again in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt as I don't know whether I've never gotten my mandrake setup to shut down completely clean. I've not had this problem with other distributions I've used in the past. But with mandrake (7.2) it just doesn't seem to get to the point where it can shut the power off, so I have to reset and run through the fsck procedures. much claimed stability. But I'm having even more crashes, and, unlike Win98, Linux doesn't seem to be able to fix many of them even on rebooting. Also, it That's strange - for me, ext2 has been far more stable than dosfs/windows has been. I haven't even had to reboot for some two months now. would be nice if there was a graphic equivalent of Window's :Safe Mode. I am not sure what that would accomplish. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Sent a message last night saying that all was fine now that (1) I erased all Linux partitions and then reinstall. (That allowd LILO to work.) and did the VIA bug fix (That eliminated the shut down error.) But then... BACK TO ZERO (although problem not identical) I was going to send this message saying that both the LILO problem and the shutdown problem were now fixed, and mention as an aside some business of the limitations of using rescue mode. But before I could do that, Linux locked up on me completely (as had sometimes happened in the past) and I had now choice but to turn off the machine. When I restarted (LILO still OK), it went through the process of making fixes until it got to this: Checking root file system/dev/hdc1 contains a file system with ferrors, check forced /dev/hdc1 Unattached mode 274111 /dev/hdc1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY, RUN fsck manually, (without -a or -p options) Failed to check file system. Do you want to repair the errors (beware...) So, after a very brief period, I'm out of action again. I don't think that I can access the the file that I fixed from Rescue, so would have reinstall again. And, of course, I would still have the old problem when shuting down without reboot. Help anyone! --- JDRadio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, When you boot the boot disk, it should come to a prompt boot: type linux enter and it should now be booting. Carroll is right about the VIA bug but don't know if it applies as you never said what the motherboard chipset was, or I missed it as I had to reinstall linux CAUSE I downloaded and installed the latest Mandrake FREQ dated 8-10-01 and it was worse then the last Freq update dated 06-01 so buyer beware... Also 3 others had the same problems. DO NOT INSTALL MANDRAKE FREQ 8-10-01.. By the way KDE 2.2 is out and that looks great but I haven't installed it yet.. (I wonder why?) JoeD Peter Rymshaw wrote: Thanks Carroll: I didn't know about this, but bookmarked it so I can apply it later. Right now I'm having problems with lilo and cab only access rescue command line, from which I have been shutting down by ctrl-alt-del. The problem has never shown up with this or a Restart shutdown, so I couldn't test the results if I did it now. Whenever I get lilo working (can't seem to find lilo.conf)... --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter: Maybe you've already sorted this out, but just in case go to nlpagan.net/linux.htm. Towards the end of the page (look for a link to Mandrake User Organization), there's a note about repairing this problem that affects some VIA-based systems. I've never found out why it works, but it does. Regards, Carroll Peter Rymshaw wrote: big snip Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Peter: Maybe you've already sorted this out, but just in case go to nlpagan.net/linux.htm. Towards the end of the page (look for a link to Mandrake User Organization), there's a note about repairing this problem that affects some VIA-based systems. I've never found out why it works, but it does. Regards, Carroll Peter Rymshaw wrote: big snip Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Thanks Carroll: I didn't know about this, but bookmarked it so I can apply it later. Right now I'm having problems with lilo and cab only access rescue command line, from which I have been shutting down by ctrl-alt-del. The problem has never shown up with this or a Restart shutdown, so I couldn't test the results if I did it now. Whenever I get lilo working (can't seem to find lilo.conf)... --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter: Maybe you've already sorted this out, but just in case go to nlpagan.net/linux.htm. Towards the end of the page (look for a link to Mandrake User Organization), there's a note about repairing this problem that affects some VIA-based systems. I've never found out why it works, but it does. Regards, Carroll Peter Rymshaw wrote: big snip Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Peter, When you boot the boot disk, it should come to a prompt boot: type linux enter and it should now be booting. Carroll is right about the VIA bug but don't know if it applies as you never said what the motherboard chipset was, or I missed it as I had to reinstall linux CAUSE I downloaded and installed the latest Mandrake FREQ dated 8-10-01 and it was worse then the last Freq update dated 06-01 so buyer beware... Also 3 others had the same problems. DO NOT INSTALL MANDRAKE FREQ 8-10-01.. By the way KDE 2.2 is out and that looks great but I haven't installed it yet.. (I wonder why?) JoeD Peter Rymshaw wrote: Thanks Carroll: I didn't know about this, but bookmarked it so I can apply it later. Right now I'm having problems with lilo and cab only access rescue command line, from which I have been shutting down by ctrl-alt-del. The problem has never shown up with this or a Restart shutdown, so I couldn't test the results if I did it now. Whenever I get lilo working (can't seem to find lilo.conf)... --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter: Maybe you've already sorted this out, but just in case go to nlpagan.net/linux.htm. Towards the end of the page (look for a link to Mandrake User Organization), there's a note about repairing this problem that affects some VIA-based systems. I've never found out why it works, but it does. Regards, Carroll Peter Rymshaw wrote: big snip Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com message.footer Content-Type: text/plain Content-Encoding: 8bit Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
Move the video card to the slot next to the AGP slot, it requires a bus master slot, just try it and humour me? On Monday 13 August 2001 23:47, Peter Rymshaw wrote: OK, I tried JDRadio's suggestion of new memory by removing my 63MG and replacing it with a new 128MB (bought at BestBuys for $19.95 after rebates) and reinstalled without specifying mem. It's running nice and fast, but no change otherwise. I still get the error message if I shutdown without reboot. I did the two cat commands and saw a bunch of info, but non of it meant much to me--contents of bus includes a SiS controller; since interrupts didn't report IRQ numbers, I didn't understand any of that. No mention anywhere of conflicts, though. No, my video card is not next to the AGP. Let me be specific. Going from bottom to top on the left hand edge of the mobo, I have 3 ISA slots and then 4 PCI. Slightly inboard and above (like the slots for the com ports) is the AGP connector. So there is no PCI slot next to the AGP in the sense of being along side of it in the same row. But if you mean is the card as close as it could be (ie, in the top-most PCI, the answer is no, it is in the third one down. I don't understand how this could make a difference, but I will move it up to the top of the row so it will be geographically closest to the AGP slot. I also will move things around so that there is nothing in the second slot. Earlier you mentioned having nothing next to the video card. Also, plug and play is turned off in the bios Also, you suggested making both hard drives masters on the two channels. Right now the drive that Windows is on is ist Master and the Linux is first Slave (with the CD-ROM 2nd Master. I'll change this around and make the CD-ROM (2nd Slave?). But if I do this is my computer likely to not be able to find any of the new locations? I don't want to lose access to my CD-ROM. Will Windows assign it a different drive letter? as long as it is configured correctly in the computer BIOS and it finds the drive they will still get the same drive letters and no data should be lost. as long as the video card is PCI and in the slot next to AGP, you don't need to worry about a card next to it, that was for an AGP video card not sharing that top slot w/ an PCI card Thanks. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well,,, maybe Don't worry about my time, I am here of my own free will and enjoy it for the heck of it and the learning I receive for free. it seems to me we might be getting some where tho, is the card in the slot next to the AGP slot? It should be, and that would be the first thing to try if it is not. have you tried (when running linux, in a text console, as root, without the quotes) cat /proc/pci and cat /proc/interupts for more information about possible pci and IRQ asingnments and confilcts? I would bet you can still use the card, depending on how great graphics you need, (and that is without checking the hardware list at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3) but I bet you will get a few folks to tell you for hi-end video cards Ge-force w/nvida chips is da way to go. On Sunday 12 August 2001 1903:30, Peter Rymshaw wrote: This is in reply to both of your messages. As I thought, I appear to have a PCI video card. My computer shop receipt says that they installed SiS 6326 PCI VC4MAGP3D S# B46N3151, which I think is ambiguous, but the card is definitely plugged into a PCI slot and my AGP slot inside ib the board is empty. I was going to ask you a series of questions regarding my vidio card replacement options re Sis/other/AGP/PCI, but your next message and some of my own thinking prompts me to go in another direction. Do you think maybe I can stay with this card even though it is a PCI? Is does seem to be working. Mandrake Control Center reports it as Sis 6326 (no reference to AGP or PCI). Furthur, it has me using XFree 4.0.6., but presents options of 3.3.6., 3.3.6. Experimental, and 4.0.6.Experimental (all of which might freeze the computer. Danger!) I was going to ask you about these and how I could change back to my current setting from the command line if I tried it and failed. But now I see your latest message. Do you think I should try the other changes to my hardware? That is, do you think that I still might be able to work things out with existing card? Sorry to take up so much time, if you're not sure, I'll just go ahead and try and see how it goes. Thanks. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you make sure that Plug and pray OS is set to off, and that you do not have any card next to the video card, and that the hard drives are set up as masters on there own IDE channel (believe me, it could well be worth the
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
OK, I tried JDRadio's suggestion of new memory by removing my 63MG and replacing it with a new 128MB (bought at BestBuys for $19.95 after rebates) and reinstalled without specifying mem. It's running nice and fast, but no change otherwise. I still get the error message if I shutdown without reboot. I did the two cat commands and saw a bunch of info, but non of it meant much to me--contents of bus includes a SiS controller; since interrupts didn't report IRQ numbers, I didn't understand any of that. No mention anywhere of conflicts, though. No, my video card is not next to the AGP. Let me be specific. Going from bottom to top on the left hand edge of the mobo, I have 3 ISA slots and then 4 PCI. Slightly inboard and above (like the slots for the com ports) is the AGP connector. So there is no PCI slot next to the AGP in the sense of being along side of it in the same row. But if you mean is the card as close as it could be (ie, in the top-most PCI, the answer is no, it is in the third one down. I don't understand how this could make a difference, but I will move it up to the top of the row so it will be geographically closest to the AGP slot. I also will move things around so that there is nothing in the second slot. Earlier you mentioned having nothing next to the video card. Also, plug and play is turned off in the bios Also, you suggested making both hard drives masters on the two channels. Right now the drive that Windows is on is ist Master and the Linux is first Slave (with the CD-ROM 2nd Master. I'll change this around and make the CD-ROM (2nd Slave?). But if I do this is my computer likely to not be able to find any of the new locations? I don't want to lose access to my CD-ROM. Will Windows assign it a different drive letter? Thanks. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well,,, maybe Don't worry about my time, I am here of my own free will and enjoy it for the heck of it and the learning I receive for free. it seems to me we might be getting some where tho, is the card in the slot next to the AGP slot? It should be, and that would be the first thing to try if it is not. have you tried (when running linux, in a text console, as root, without the quotes) cat /proc/pci and cat /proc/interupts for more information about possible pci and IRQ asingnments and confilcts? I would bet you can still use the card, depending on how great graphics you need, (and that is without checking the hardware list at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3) but I bet you will get a few folks to tell you for hi-end video cards Ge-force w/nvida chips is da way to go. On Sunday 12 August 2001 1903:30, Peter Rymshaw wrote: This is in reply to both of your messages. As I thought, I appear to have a PCI video card. My computer shop receipt says that they installed SiS 6326 PCI VC4MAGP3D S# B46N3151, which I think is ambiguous, but the card is definitely plugged into a PCI slot and my AGP slot inside ib the board is empty. I was going to ask you a series of questions regarding my vidio card replacement options re Sis/other/AGP/PCI, but your next message and some of my own thinking prompts me to go in another direction. Do you think maybe I can stay with this card even though it is a PCI? Is does seem to be working. Mandrake Control Center reports it as Sis 6326 (no reference to AGP or PCI). Furthur, it has me using XFree 4.0.6., but presents options of 3.3.6., 3.3.6. Experimental, and 4.0.6.Experimental (all of which might freeze the computer. Danger!) I was going to ask you about these and how I could change back to my current setting from the command line if I tried it and failed. But now I see your latest message. Do you think I should try the other changes to my hardware? That is, do you think that I still might be able to work things out with existing card? Sorry to take up so much time, if you're not sure, I'll just go ahead and try and see how it goes. Thanks. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you make sure that Plug and pray OS is set to off, and that you do not have any card next to the video card, and that the hard drives are set up as masters on there own IDE channel (believe me, it could well be worth the time to set the jumpers a cables if you get this right). next i would consider a good test program for your ram. the differences in the install may have been choices you made as far as expert and recomended. I am no where near expericanced enough to decipher your error, but I bet someone here will in the next couple of days. On Sunday 12 August 2001 14:06, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Well, progress but I don't know whether it will stick or not. I have 64MB of memory, so I installed as mem=060. The istallation went very smoothly, although I was given a warning at
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
On Sunday 12 August 2001 11:06, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Well, progress but I don't know whether it will stick or not. Are you absolutely sure that the 6326 card that you have is an AGP and not PCI? The way I read the video hardware compatiblility list, only the AGP version is supported. I have an SIS6326 AGP with 4meg on board, and I have no problems at all with it inXF86 ver 4.x eryl
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
can you make sure that Plug and pray OS is set to off, and that you do not have any card next to the video card, and that the hard drives are set up as masters on there own IDE channel (believe me, it could well be worth the time to set the jumpers a cables if you get this right). next i would consider a good test program for your ram. the differences in the install may have been choices you made as far as expert and recomended. I am no where near expericanced enough to decipher your error, but I bet someone here will in the next couple of days. On Sunday 12 August 2001 14:06, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Well, progress but I don't know whether it will stick or not. I have 64MB of memory, so I installed as mem=060. The istallation went very smoothly, although I was given a warning at the very beginning about being low on memory. The other things that I noticed was that there was no sight of a bar filling across the screen before going into second stage like in previous installs, just a hestitation. I never saw the number of programs that would be downloader, as I did before, but there was the picture show about all the great things I was getting, which I don't think I've been seeing lately. Also, that I did not need to insert the second CD at all. But the problem is that when I chose Sutdown (not Restart)I still got a message about segmentation fault rather than a complete termination at the end of the shutdown process. Ctr Alt Del at this point made the machine end and restart. So I tried restarting--no problem. This time I shut down and selected Restart (not Shutdown) and I saw no errors. But I remember this kind of behavior before for a while until it simply wouldn't restart after a while, so I'm still not sure that I'm OK. Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - I decided to try reinstalling by cutting back on the memory setting even more, so I reinstalled with mem=055. It went through the whole installation fine, but could not start X, would only run in command mode. So I reinstalled once again with my mem=060 and everything is OK *for now* to the extent above. I plan to shut down now with the Restart option. Unless, that error message tells you that I have something I should do, I'll just wait and see if the fix holds or not. Thanks again. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it must seem like I ask a BUNCH of questions, but the more info we have the more likely to find the problem. Have you tried the install with specifying a few lower meg ram than the amount you are reported to have? (At the splash screen hit F1 And type linux mem=xxxM without the quotes and with a number representing the RAM available as xxx. this was linux mem=120M after subtracting 8 meg from 128 meg reported do you have a card in the slot next to the video card (a no-no w/n agp video card) On Saturday 11 August 2001 20:01, Peter Rymshaw wrote: -what vidoe card do you have? is it onboard the MOBO? **It is a SIS PCI 6326VC4MAGP3D. It's a card plugged into one of the expansion slots. does it share memory from the MoBo? **I have no idea. are the hard drive set as master on there own ide channel? **The hard drives are master and slave on the first. is the CD ROM set to slave on it's own channel? **The CD ROM is *master* on the other channel. is the BIOS correctly ID the HD? **Yes. and do you have the same problems with winder$? **No. do you try and delete tmp files? **No, is that likely to matter? I will.. sounds like you might have problems with the pio or dma settngs on te hard drives, but could be a load of different things. what brand of HD? model? speed? how are you formating it? has this hosed the winder$ install? **One's a Maxtor, one's a Western. Don't know the models off hand. Been using either the Linux installation option or Partion Magic 4.0 to reformat the Linux Partions each attempt. Both drives were originally formated as FAT 32, but my for my most recent attempts I've formatted the entire drive for Linux. (PM shows just one partion, Ext2, occupying the whole drive. *Should I be seeing the swap and personal partitions seperately? I think I did at one time*. *Thanks. Does this info help any? Pete R. On Saturday 11 August 2001 13:44, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Segmentation errors or faults have prevented me from operating and now even installing Mandrake 8 (from 2 CD unpackaged version). From the beginning I had difficulties in installation, (sometimes while it was installing programs, sometimes during post-installation steps) , was eventually successful and had it
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
This is in reply to both of your messages. As I thought, I appear to have a PCI video card. My computer shop receipt says that they installed SiS 6326 PCI VC4MAGP3D S# B46N3151, which I think is ambiguous, but the card is definitely plugged into a PCI slot and my AGP slot inside ib the board is empty. I was going to ask you a series of questions regarding my vidio card replacement options re Sis/other/AGP/PCI, but your next message and some of my own thinking prompts me to go in another direction. Do you think maybe I can stay with this card even though it is a PCI? Is does seem to be working. Mandrake Control Center reports it as Sis 6326 (no reference to AGP or PCI). Furthur, it has me using XFree 4.0.6., but presents options of 3.3.6., 3.3.6. Experimental, and 4.0.6.Experimental (all of which might freeze the computer. Danger!) I was going to ask you about these and how I could change back to my current setting from the command line if I tried it and failed. But now I see your latest message. Do you think I should try the other changes to my hardware? That is, do you think that I still might be able to work things out with existing card? Sorry to take up so much time, if you're not sure, I'll just go ahead and try and see how it goes. Thanks. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you make sure that Plug and pray OS is set to off, and that you do not have any card next to the video card, and that the hard drives are set up as masters on there own IDE channel (believe me, it could well be worth the time to set the jumpers a cables if you get this right). next i would consider a good test program for your ram. the differences in the install may have been choices you made as far as expert and recomended. I am no where near expericanced enough to decipher your error, but I bet someone here will in the next couple of days. On Sunday 12 August 2001 14:06, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Well, progress but I don't know whether it will stick or not. I have 64MB of memory, so I installed as mem=060. The istallation went very smoothly, although I was given a warning at the very beginning about being low on memory. The other things that I noticed was that there was no sight of a bar filling across the screen before going into second stage like in previous installs, just a hestitation. I never saw the number of programs that would be downloader, as I did before, but there was the picture show about all the great things I was getting, which I don't think I've been seeing lately. Also, that I did not need to insert the second CD at all. But the problem is that when I chose Sutdown (not Restart)I still got a message about segmentation fault rather than a complete termination at the end of the shutdown process. Ctr Alt Del at this point made the machine end and restart. So I tried restarting--no problem. This time I shut down and selected Restart (not Shutdown) and I saw no errors. But I remember this kind of behavior before for a while until it simply wouldn't restart after a while, so I'm still not sure that I'm OK. Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - I decided to try reinstalling by cutting back on the memory setting even more, so I reinstalled with mem=055. It went through the whole installation fine, but could not start X, would only run in command mode. So I reinstalled once again with my mem=060 and everything is OK *for now* to the extent above. I plan to shut down now with the Restart option. Unless, that error message tells you that I have something I should do, I'll just wait and see if the fix holds or not. Thanks again. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it must seem like I ask a BUNCH of questions, but the more info we have the more likely to find the problem. Have you tried the install with specifying a few lower meg ram than the amount you are reported to have? (At the splash screen hit F1 And type linux mem=xxxM without the quotes and with a number representing the RAM available as xxx. this was linux mem=120M after subtracting 8 meg from 128 meg reported do you have a card in the slot next to the video card (a no-no w/n agp video card) On Saturday 11 August 2001 20:01, Peter Rymshaw wrote: -what vidoe card do you have? is it onboard the MOBO? **It is a SIS PCI 6326VC4MAGP3D. It's a card plugged into one of the expansion slots. does it share memory from the MoBo? **I have no idea. are the hard drive set as master on there own ide channel? **The hard drives are master and slave on the first. is the CD ROM set to slave on it's own channel? **The CD ROM is *master* on the other
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install
well,,, maybe Don't worry about my time, I am here of my own free will and enjoy it for the heck of it and the learning I receive for free. it seems to me we might be getting some where tho, is the card in the slot next to the AGP slot? It should be, and that would be the first thing to try if it is not. have you tried (when running linux, in a text console, as root, without the quotes) cat /proc/pci and cat /proc/interupts for more information about possible pci and IRQ asingnments and confilcts? I would bet you can still use the card, depending on how great graphics you need, (and that is without checking the hardware list at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hardware.php3) but I bet you will get a few folks to tell you for hi-end video cards Ge-force w/nvida chips is da way to go. On Sunday 12 August 2001 1903:30, Peter Rymshaw wrote: This is in reply to both of your messages. As I thought, I appear to have a PCI video card. My computer shop receipt says that they installed SiS 6326 PCI VC4MAGP3D S# B46N3151, which I think is ambiguous, but the card is definitely plugged into a PCI slot and my AGP slot inside ib the board is empty. I was going to ask you a series of questions regarding my vidio card replacement options re Sis/other/AGP/PCI, but your next message and some of my own thinking prompts me to go in another direction. Do you think maybe I can stay with this card even though it is a PCI? Is does seem to be working. Mandrake Control Center reports it as Sis 6326 (no reference to AGP or PCI). Furthur, it has me using XFree 4.0.6., but presents options of 3.3.6., 3.3.6. Experimental, and 4.0.6.Experimental (all of which might freeze the computer. Danger!) I was going to ask you about these and how I could change back to my current setting from the command line if I tried it and failed. But now I see your latest message. Do you think I should try the other changes to my hardware? That is, do you think that I still might be able to work things out with existing card? Sorry to take up so much time, if you're not sure, I'll just go ahead and try and see how it goes. Thanks. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you make sure that Plug and pray OS is set to off, and that you do not have any card next to the video card, and that the hard drives are set up as masters on there own IDE channel (believe me, it could well be worth the time to set the jumpers a cables if you get this right). next i would consider a good test program for your ram. the differences in the install may have been choices you made as far as expert and recomended. I am no where near expericanced enough to decipher your error, but I bet someone here will in the next couple of days. On Sunday 12 August 2001 14:06, Peter Rymshaw wrote: Well, progress but I don't know whether it will stick or not. I have 64MB of memory, so I installed as mem=060. The istallation went very smoothly, although I was given a warning at the very beginning about being low on memory. The other things that I noticed was that there was no sight of a bar filling across the screen before going into second stage like in previous installs, just a hestitation. I never saw the number of programs that would be downloader, as I did before, but there was the picture show about all the great things I was getting, which I don't think I've been seeing lately. Also, that I did not need to insert the second CD at all. But the problem is that when I chose Sutdown (not Restart)I still got a message about segmentation fault rather than a complete termination at the end of the shutdown process. Ctr Alt Del at this point made the machine end and restart. So I tried restarting--no problem. This time I shut down and selected Restart (not Shutdown) and I saw no errors. But I remember this kind of behavior before for a while until it simply wouldn't restart after a while, so I'm still not sure that I'm OK. Here is what it said when it stopped the shutdown: Code: Bad EIP value. /etc/rc0.d/S01halt: line 1: 4054 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p - I decided to try reinstalling by cutting back on the memory setting even more, so I reinstalled with mem=055. It went through the whole installation fine, but could not start X, would only run in command mode. So I reinstalled once again with my mem=060 and everything is OK *for now* to the extent above. I plan to shut down now with the Restart option. Unless, that error message tells you that I have something I should do, I'll just wait and see if the fix holds or not. Thanks again. --- etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it must seem like I ask a BUNCH of
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault at shut down
Root: Go to www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/troubles/tquick1.html and check out the last item on that page about GPF's after shutdown. You've got to edit your /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt file and change the -i -d -p option to -i -d. IIRC, Paul Pagan has this fix on his site as well, but I've lost the address. I had this problem with 7.1, 7.2 and 8.0 on some installations, but not this box -- perhaps because it has a newer BIOS. The actual code is different across the LM versions, but you shouldn't have any problem. By the way, I'll give an authentic attaboy to anyone who can tell me what the different options mean. Regards, Carroll root wrote: when shutting down, not rebooting, I am getting an odd segmentation fault. I don't get it on warm reboot since the problem occurs after the path diverges for reboot vs shut down. I have to power off to get out of it. message sequence in log is: halting system stopping all md devices power down general protection fault: f000 CPU:0 EIP:0050:[872b] EFLAGS:00010047 bunch of registers elided here Process Halt (PID:1319 Stackpage: c5add000) stack dump elided here CALL TRACE CODE: BAD EIP VALUE /etc/rc0.d/s01halt: line 1: 1319 segmentation fault halt -i -d -p tia -- Gentlemen, it's in beta. That means it's like Windows. They're letting you test it while they continue to screw it up until it's totally useless. (Bigg Fredd in RCC talking about Google's temporary interface to the deja archives)
Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault
Hi, I think Segmentation fault is a bug or an error in the program, I think you'll have to wait for a bug fix or a newer version of that software. Hope that helps, Aaron On Fri, 4 May 2001, SoloCDM wrote: How can a Segmentation Fault be corrected? No RPM installations or uninstalls are allowed. FYI, /var/lib/rpm was backed up before the error. Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM
Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault
This sounds like a problem with the rpm database, not with the program itself. You'll need to run the following commands as root: rpm --initdb rpm --rebuilddb This should take care of it. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:44 PM 05/04/2001 +0100, AKC Chu wrote: Hi, I think Segmentation fault is a bug or an error in the program, I think you'll have to wait for a bug fix or a newer version of that software. Hope that helps, Aaron On Fri, 4 May 2001, SoloCDM wrote: How can a Segmentation Fault be corrected? No RPM installations or uninstalls are allowed. FYI, /var/lib/rpm was backed up before the error. Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM
Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Michael D. Viron wrote: This sounds like a problem with the rpm database, not with the program itself. You'll need to run the following commands as root: rpm --initdb rpm --rebuilddb This should take care of it. heya,this is what i get doing the previous commands: rpm --initdb /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb: /lib/libdb.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/librpm.so.0) I should mention that i have mdk 7.2 and i updated kinda' forced and patched tp rpm 4 and now i can't to anything with the rpm manager... Anyone can help me? thx Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 01:44 PM 05/04/2001 +0100, AKC Chu wrote: Hi, I think Segmentation fault is a bug or an error in the program, I think you'll have to wait for a bug fix or a newer version of that software. Hope that helps, Aaron On Fri, 4 May 2001, SoloCDM wrote: How can a Segmentation Fault be corrected? No RPM installations or uninstalls are allowed. FYI, /var/lib/rpm was backed up before the error. Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault
On Monday 01 January 2001 21:06, you wrote: Yea, I tried running it from both the KDE app launcher, the desktop icon and also using /usr/bin/netscape from the terminal. Same result. TIA for any help. Someone else suggested deleting all netscape dirs and reinstalling. Is that the best solution? --Kevin Log in as each user rm -r ~/.netscape -f Leave the nsmail file alone if you are using it for email Civileme - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] segmentation fault On Sunday 31 December 2000 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin Ummm, no, you need to clean netscape. Reinstalling linux is not necessary; the base system is stable. A segmentation fault means that the segment registers in the processor are pointing at the wrong area of memory. Most likely the problem lies with the WM you are running. If /usr/bin/netscape brings up netscape from a terminal, it is almost certainly the launcher of the WM. If that is the problem, there are fixes. Try that and report what happens Civileme
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault
On Sunday 31 December 2000 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin Ummm, no, you need to clean netscape. Reinstalling linux is not necessary; the base system is stable. A segmentation fault means that the segment registers in the processor are pointing at the wrong area of memory. Most likely the problem lies with the WM you are running. If /usr/bin/netscape brings up netscape from a terminal, it is almost certainly the launcher of the WM. If that is the problem, there are fixes. Try that and report what happens Civileme
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault
Yea, I tried running it from both the KDE app launcher, the desktop icon and also using /usr/bin/netscape from the terminal. Same result. TIA for any help. Someone else suggested deleting all netscape dirs and reinstalling. Is that the best solution? --Kevin - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] segmentation fault On Sunday 31 December 2000 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin Ummm, no, you need to clean netscape. Reinstalling linux is not necessary; the base system is stable. A segmentation fault means that the segment registers in the processor are pointing at the wrong area of memory. Most likely the problem lies with the WM you are running. If /usr/bin/netscape brings up netscape from a terminal, it is almost certainly the launcher of the WM. If that is the problem, there are fixes. Try that and report what happens Civileme
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault
Try deleting your .netscape folder. Just make sure you copy the bookmarks.html file into a safe place so you don't have to rebuild all your bookmarks again. Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
RE: [newbie] segmentation fault
Instead of uninstalling Netscape and the like first try removing all the "~/.netscaXXX" related files in your home directory. I've found that if indexes are screwed up, Netscape will quite with SIG-11's. You can save off your bookmarks temporarily and move them back after you've resolved the problem. Re-installing merely replicates the original problem... -JMS --- Yea, I tried running it from both the KDE app launcher, the desktop icon and also using /usr/bin/netscape from the terminal. Same result. TIA for any help. Someone else suggested deleting all netscape dirs and reinstalling. Is that the best solution? --Kevin - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] segmentation fault On Sunday 31 December 2000 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin Ummm, no, you need to clean netscape. Reinstalling linux is not necessary; the base system is stable. A segmentation fault means that the segment registers in the processor are pointing at the wrong area of memory. Most likely the problem lies with the WM you are running. If /usr/bin/netscape brings up netscape from a terminal, it is almost certainly the launcher of the WM. If that is the problem, there are fixes. Try that and report what happens Civileme
RE: [newbie] segmentation fault
This problem has surfaced before with other versions of Netscape. Sorry, but I do not remember what the solution was. Check the Archive for Newbie and Expert you should be able to find the posting there. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Taylor Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] segmentation fault Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault
Kevin Taylor wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs installed fine, but I _still_ get the segmentation fault when trying to start netscape. Any advice on what a segmentation fault is and how I can fix it? Or do I need to reinstall linux? Thanks. --Kevin Kevin, If you get a segmentation fault, ensure that you: a) Uninstall b) Delete the program folder c) Install the program to /usr/local or /usr/bin -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault (solved)
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, you wrote: Hi Andrew, I received that message a few times. Log in as root and send the Realplayer7 folder to trash. Run the installation to /usr/local/Realplayer7 or /usr/X11R6/bin/RealPlayer7 -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Roman, Cheers for that, it's now up and running again. Weird how it just decided to pack in (and exactly at the time when I rebooted only to find that Linux had also decided to completely change my desktop style). Anyway I changed the directory to /usr/local as you suggested and placed a link in /usr/lib where it originally was and where netscape looks and now all is back to normal. Any offers on for how long? Andrew
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi John, I tried from a console window within KDE and I unpack it whit tar xfv file.tar Oder. I don't recall how I did it, but you might try running ./setup (or whatever) from a console TTY (NOT a console window.) I don't know why it would make any difference, but it might. I forget...did you use the Star Office Tarball off the CDROM or did you download it? I downloaded it and it works fine for me... John
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Oder Santos wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder. Hmm..Pentium 200mmxI don't see anything obvious here Have you tried from a console window within X as well as from console prompt? IIRC, the directory names sound correct...how did you unpack it? John Hi John, I tried from a console window within KDE and I unpack it whit tar xfv file.tar Oder. try testing the archive "tar tvf foo.tar" (isn't that supposed tobe a tgz though?) Nope. I checked the one I downloaded from Sun/Stardivision. It's a tarball, not a tgz. :-) John
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Oder Santos wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder. Hmm..Pentium 200mmxI don't see anything obvious here Have you tried from a console window within X as well as from console prompt? IIRC, the directory names sound correct...how did you unpack it? John Hi John, I tried from a console window within KDE and I unpack it whit tar xfv file.tar Oder. try testing the archive "tar tvf foo.tar" (isn't that supposed tobe a tgz though?) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder. Hmm..Pentium 200mmxI don't see anything obvious here Have you tried from a console window within X as well as from console prompt? IIRC, the directory names sound correct...how did you unpack it? John
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote: I am really new to linux and I have just downloaded Star Office 5.1a but after "untar" so51a and try ./setup in office51 I saw this message: segmentation fault (core dumped). What is this? Does anyone could help me? Thanks in advance, Oder. Hmm...sounds like a bad/grunged archive, or something similar. Mine worked just fine out of the archive. What processor are you on? How much memory? How much free drive space? John Thanks John, My processor is a intel 200MHz with MMX, 96 MB EDO DRAM - notebook toshiba 315 CDS - and 350MB free drive space. regards, Oder.
Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, you wrote: I am really new to linux and I have just downloaded Star Office 5.1a but after "untar" so51a and try ./setup in office51 I saw this message: segmentation fault (core dumped). What is this? Does anyone could help me? Thanks in advance, Oder. Hmm...sounds like a bad/grunged archive, or something similar. Mine worked just fine out of the archive. What processor are you on? How much memory? How much free drive space? John
