A segmentation fault (often shortened to segfault) or bus error occurs when the hardware notifies a Unix-like Operating system about a memory access violation.
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Should I be worried? Segfaults reported in syslog when merging LVM snapshot (reverting the original back to the snapshot)
I was just experimenting with snapshots in LVM on Ubuntu 12.10. I created a snapshot logical volume of 6.5 GiB, and after making some changes to the origin decided to merge the snapshot back in to ...
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sigaction(7): semantics of siginfo_t's si_code member
I've got a long-running program (becomes a daemon with daemon(3) call) that exits on Signal 11 (Segmentation Violation) every so often. I can't tell why. So, I wrote a SIGSEGV handler, set using the ...
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sox segmentation fault
My attempt to record sound with sox on Raspberry PI fails:
pi@raspberrypi ~/tmp $ rec new.wav
Segmentation fault
And so does play:
pi@raspberrypi ~/tmp $ play test.wav
Segmentation fault
Yet it ...
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Segfault on a debian server
We moved our retail software to new hardware (we passed from an IBM x3200 with SATA 7200rpm disks to an IBM x3200 with SAS 15000rpm disks) but after a few days with no problem at all we keep getting
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Segmentation fault while doing `sudo su -`
I am getting a segmentation fault error while doing sudo su - or sudo su - username in Linux Server (RHEL 4.7).
Can any one help me resolve this issue? Linux server (RHEL 4.7) is a LDAP client.
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How could running strace be fixing my OpenGL issue?
Since a recent major upgrade to my distribution (PLD Linux), I have been having trouble with a whole slew of programs. As best I can tell, anything that touches OpenGL or PulseAudio segfaults. I'm ...
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Unkillable apache2 processes
After upgrading from debian lenny to squeeze (apache2 2.2.16-6+squeeze4 and php 5.3.10-1~dotdeb.1), my apache processes started to exit with segmentation fault. It happens every 5-30 minutes (for 1 ...
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How can I trap a program that returns 139 (segmentation fault) in bash?
I have a bash script that tests some programs and one of the program returns Segmentation fault so I tried to add a trap in the head of my script:
trap "echo 'segfault occured!'" SIGSEGV
That ...
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Segmentation fault message when trying to run application [closed]
I am trying to run an application on the command line. After I typed in
env SACAUX=`pwd`/aux ./bin/sac
on the command line, I got a "Segmentationfault" error. This should get me to the command ...
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ld-2.14 segfaulting on KDE launch in ArchLinux
I just installed ArchLinux and then KDE. It was all working fine. After a reboot, KDE simply refuses to starts. Whenever I login using KDM, it shows the KDE splash screen.. and before the second icon ...
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Piping output from a segfaulting program
I have a script that calls a program (specifically, ttf2afm, part of tetex 3.0) that sometimes segfaults and sometimes doesn't. The information I need is always printed out before it segfaults, but ...
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Is there a way to find out which program is segfault-ing?
I have a Busybox/Linux system where a mystery program is segfaulting rarely. Is there a way to find which program is doing this?
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.dtors looks writable, but attempts to write segfault
This is Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-11-server, 32bit x86
$ cat test.c
main() { int *dt = (int *)0x08049f18; *dt = 1; }
$ readelf -S ./test
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[18] .dtors PROGBITS 08049f14 000f14 000008 ...
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Why is badblocks segfaulting?
I am trying to check a mounted partition to see if the drive has errors:
[root@virtuality ~]# /sbin/badblocks -v /dev/sdb1
Segmentation fault
Uh oh. What does this mean? Why is badblocks ...
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Segmentation fault when trying to run glxgears via virtualGL
(Follow-up on How to efficiently use 3D via a remote connection?)
I installed the amd64 package on the server and the i386 one on the client. Following the user's guide I run this on the client:
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Kernel segmentation fault (core dumped), how to diagnose? [closed]
I have a fedora 13 x64 box I use at home for a storage server. I use sshfs to mount my music from home and listen at work, I run my irssi client in screen on it for freenode communication and lately ...
