[newbie] Segmentation fault.

2004-08-07 Thread Hoyt Bailey
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. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux user #363264 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault.

2004-08-07 Thread Greg Meyer
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

Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault???

2002-08-10 Thread Chris Spackman
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

[newbie] Segmentation fault???

2002-08-09 Thread Tenchi
Hi! I sent a letter 3 days ago about a seg. fault problem. Nobody encountered anything like this before? Can anyone help me? T. --- 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:

Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault???

2002-08-09 Thread et
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

RE: [newbie] Segmentation fault???

2002-08-09 Thread Tenchi
, 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

Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault???

2002-08-09 Thread Damian G
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

[newbie] segmentation fault

2002-04-23 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I am trying to install LM 8.2 on my workstation. But I get the following error message when trying to select language. Segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing as the install crashes. The machine is fine running LM 8.1. I got an exactly the same machine and it is running LM 8.2

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-21 Thread David E. Fox
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-20 Thread Peter Rymshaw
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-19 Thread etharp
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-19 Thread Peter Rymshaw
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-19 Thread Peter Rymshaw
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-19 Thread David E. Fox
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-19 Thread David E. Fox
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-19 Thread Peter Rymshaw
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-18 Thread Peter Rymshaw
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
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.

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-17 Thread Peter Rymshaw
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-17 Thread JDRadio
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-14 Thread etharp
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-13 Thread Peter Rymshaw
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-12 Thread erylon hines
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-12 Thread Peter Rymshaw
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault on shutdown and then install

2001-08-12 Thread etharp
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault at shut down

2001-07-26 Thread Carroll Grigsby
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

[newbie] segmentation fault at shut down

2001-07-26 Thread root
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

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Thread AKC Chu
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

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Thread Michael D. Viron
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

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Fault

2001-05-04 Thread Petre Daniel
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:

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-02 Thread civileme
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-01 Thread Kevin Taylor
- 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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-01 Thread Anthony
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

RE: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-01 Thread OPJOSE
scape 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 netsca

[newbie] segmentation fault

2000-12-31 Thread Kevin Taylor
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

RE: [newbie] segmentation fault

2000-12-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
: [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 "segement

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2000-12-31 Thread Romanator
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

[newbie] Segmentation fault

2000-10-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi again, God what a crap day I'm having today with the old Linux machine. Finally got RealPlayer working thanks to all the suggestions. However it all of a sudden decided to pack in. I tried starting it from the comand prompt but just got: Segmentation fault. What is this? Andrew

Re: [newbie] Segmentation fault (solved)

2000-10-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
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,

[newbie] segmentation fault

2000-06-24 Thread Tiago Costa
Hi! I'm a newbie with linux and I was trying to install mandreke 7.0 for windows from a magazine CD. After choosing the destination drive, and after I get a msg like "2nd stage installation" I got an error message like "segmentation fault" and the machine just freezed, forcing me to reboot.

[newbie] segmentation fault with DrakConfig or Xconfigurator

2000-03-13 Thread jero
Hello, I installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 and then did an upgrade to Mandrake 7.02. Unfortunately, every time I click on Drak Config or Xconfigurator I get a segmentation dump. Would anybody happen to know why? Jero

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-11-21 Thread John Aldrich
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-11-20 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-11-20 Thread John Aldrich
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

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-11-20 Thread Oder Santos
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,

[newbie] segmentation fault ?

1999-11-20 Thread Oder Santos
I try ./setup in office51 to install StarOffice51a but receive this message: segmentation fault (core dumped). What it is? Does anyone know how to help me? Thanks, Oder.

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault?

1999-01-17 Thread John Aldrich
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

[newbie] segmentation fault (root problem part II)

1999-01-02 Thread Carsten M. Larsen
Hi, Now I cured the root problem (thanx to Steve Philp) I can now log in as root or su to root.. but the problems just keep comin' :o( When I try to run linuxconf (or userconf for that matter) from /bin on the server via telnet I get the message "segmentation fault" . Hmmm. If I log