Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs -- SOLVED

2002-02-05 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
ldd gives a list of the libraries on which a program depends. After booting in single user mode, I choose a simple program (login) among the ones that were segfaulting and then methodically began reinstalling its libraries one by one. To find out which package contained the file which ldd was tell

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-04 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 04:52, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On > > restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. > > > > On startup, gdm would not start. After enteri

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-04 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
n Sun, 2002-02-03 at 17:09, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had similar symptoms once. Segfaults and apparently corrupted disk > > files. It turned out to be a bad memory SIMM. Try running mem

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-04 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 00:36, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 00:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A blind stab in the dark: why not simply 'apt-get --reinstall install > '? That would be if pppd had not ceased functionning. I guess I'm going to burn a snapshot on CD from somewhere wit

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-03 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I had similar symptoms once. Segfaults and apparently corrupted disk > > files. It turned out to be a bad memory SIMM. Try running memte

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On > > restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. > > > > On startup, gdm would not start.

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On > restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. > > On startup, gdm would not start. After entering my username in the > console, the login prompt came back wit

Re: Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 00:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If anyone has read this far, thank you. At that point, I am somewhat out > of my depth to say the least. Any hint that can help me pin down the > cause of my misery is more than welcome. > > And yes, I do have backups of my data, but not of

Segfaults in seemingly unrelated programs

2002-02-02 Thread jim
Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. On startup, gdm would not start. After entering my username in the console, the login prompt came back without giving me the opportunity to enter my password. Th