Questions tagged [segmentation-fault]
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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Segmentation fault doing operations with one file
I'm having some strange problem in my cPanel centos 7.9 linux system. For some reason each time I'm trying to do some operation with one .php file inside one cpanel account I'm getting "...
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Bash script segmentation fault
My assignment is to write a bash script that reads a directory and returns the file type of each file within, including all subdirectories. Using the find command is not allowed. I've tried to ...
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SIGSEGV address boundary error shortly after waking from sleep
After resuming from a hybrid-sleep, I can log in (swaylock) and initially it seems ok - pwd, journalctl -xe run as expected in the shell still open from when I put it to sleep.
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Core dump not written on segmentation fault
I'm now reading The Shellcoder's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes, 2nd Edition.
In the second chapter considered the simple buffer overflow problem like this (C code):
int main () {
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Tang fails with SEGV
I have a tang server (clevis/tang) in a linux container (LXD).
The tangd server is started on receiving a connection throught TCP port 80, according to the tangd.socket configuration:
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Why can't user process READ memory in kernel address space?
It seems fairly obvious why user processes can't write or modify data on kernel address space. But I can't get my head around why they can't even read the data.
I know that a segmentation trap would ...
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Segmentation fault in vim and vifm
What does this error mean?
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: Finished.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: Finished.
I get it randomly when I close vifm or vim in ...
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Capture stdout of a crashing program and shell's "segfault error" message
I have a compiled program main.bin that is supposed to print:
hello world
another line
This program generates a segmentation fault right after printing the first line.
If I run it in the shell (zsh), ...
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Segfault when non-sudo
For some weird reason, several programs have started to segfault when I try to run them without escalated privileges. Among these are gnome-abrt and variety which used to run fine without sudo up ...
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Dmesg shows segfaults on almost all system applications
Our team has a server equipped with couple of GPUs.
We've installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it to run couple of experiments.
However, we've experienced random segfaults without running any custom programs of ...
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MS teams makes the whole GUI stall: GpuWatchdog segfault
Since I use microsoft teams on my Debian buster machine, I get a GUI freeze sometimes: The mouse pointer can still be moved on the screen, but no visible feedback on clicks or keyboard presses. Also ...
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rpc.mountd is segfaulting immediately on launch
After completing a routine apt upgrade on my server and laptop and rebooting everything, I found that
$ mount nfs-server:/mnt /mountpoint
was just hanging forever. There didn't seem to be any logical ...
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dotnet Segmentation Fault on Ubuntu: i have only 174 MB free RAM
When i run dotnet or dotnet --list-sdks or dotnet --list-runtimes it works, but if i run a project or even dotnet --help or dotnet --info , i get
Segmentation fault
In /var/log/syslog i see:
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After upgrade, "everything" starts to segfault
I just upgraded my Ubuntu 20.04.
After the upgrade I suddenly started to see a massive amounts of segfaults like this:
[ 87.157912] perl[5442]: segfault at 0 ip 0000556a510d9f05 sp 00007fff768ae410 ...
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How can my PCI device driver remap PCI memory to userspace?
I am trying to implement a PCI device driver for a virtual PCI device on QEMU. The device defines a BAR region as RAM, and the driver can do ioremap() this region and access it without any issues. The ...
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Can you set up segfault logging in Centos7?
I have a problem that one of my PHP CLI scripts mysteriously stops running after several hours of uptime. There's no trace in any logfiles, nothing. It seems to just suddenly terminate for no obvious ...
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divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
In the past 3 days, my desktop system keeps crashing multiple times per day. It completely freezes and is unresponsive, but all of the apps still run (I can hear music/video playing correctly).
I can ...
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Ubuntu Chromium-browser segmentation fault
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 in Userland android application, on Android 10 and have installed chromium-browser through command line sudo apt install chromium-browser.
But when starting it through chromium-...
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running redshift on dedian returns a “Segmentation fault” [closed]
$ /usr/bin/redshift -l 52.3:16.3 -t 6700:3500
Segmentation fault
DISTRIB_CODENAME=rodete
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux rodete"
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_RELEASE=rodete
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matplotlib crashes on Manjaro Linux
I have the latest version of Manjaro Gnome installed, kernel 5.9.8, and python 3.8.6 and matplotlib 3.3.3. Matplotlib works fine normally, for example, when images are displayed using pylab, I can ...
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Unlimited stack size with pthreads
My default stack size (according to ulimit -s) is 8192 kB, so naturally the code below segfaults when I try to run it. Also, naturally, it works fine if I do a 'ulimit -s 9000'.
However, when I do a '...
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dd command caused segmentation fault and now stuck in shell
I am pretty new to Linux and have run into some problems.
Goal: I have two machines running Debian 9 Stretch and I want to clone one of the machines onto the other.
First thing I did was connected an ...
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Why does Chromium segfault when uploading images?
When selecting an image for upload, I am able to see the preview in the browser. Once the actual upload process begins, Chromium segfaults.
Seems like it's some sort of odd permission issue? The file ...
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readline's rl_parse_and_bind causes crash
I am using Ubuntu 18.04.5. This very simple program segfaults on the invocation of rl_parse_and_bind. Can anyone help me?
// Build with cc read.c -o read -lreadline
#include <readline/readline.h&...
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Segmentation fault when trying to launch snap package
Until today I've been able to launch the snap package 'yubioath-desktop' as normal with /snap/bin/yubioath-desktop. Now the screen flashes something instantaneously before disappearing.
System info
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dotnet --help -> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Most dotnet commands I run on my Ubuntu 20.04 system
gives me the error:Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I tried rerunning the dotnet installation scripts and I tried modifying the stack size with ...
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"Segmentation fault (core dumped)" is given back when launching most apps on archlinux after upgrade
Noob here !
I have archlabs which runs on archlinux. After normal upgrade, most apps do not run (texmaker, qt5ct ...), when running them from terminal they give the error : "Segmentation fault (...
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Segfault with Debian Stretch
Segfault but why? It only happens with debian:stretch+mysql.connector+tox and Python3.x. Reproducible from just a few lines:
FROM debian:stretch
RUN apt update -y && apt install -y make build-...
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Is a "segmentation fault" a system error or program bug?
I am currently running a statistical modelling script that performs a phylogenetic ANOVA. The script runs fine when I analyse the full dataset. But when I take a subset it starts analysing but quickly ...
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Can't update libc6: subprocess old post-removal script was killed by signal (Segmentation Fault)
Something failed in an upgrade from Raspbian 7 to Raspbian 8.
I have found threads with similar title to this one, and have tried many things,
but I always get the same error.
Node is at a remote ...
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tmux segfaults on send-key after upgrading to 2.9a
I just upgraded an Ubuntu Server from 18.10 to 19.04 and then to 19.10. I think that this upgrade also upgraded tmux to a newer version.
Since then my tmux scripts, which build some dashboards, are ...
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Valgrind Segmentation Fault
I've never used Valgrind before and want to use it to check for memory leak in a program written in C. I'm using a BeagleBone AI which run Linux Debian.
debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /proc/version
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Why am I suddenly getting a segmentation fault for LMMS?
Just like the title, with LMMS both from the OS repo and built from Github. I've gotten no error reports during compilation, with full repos for Carla and VSTs. Still, the terminal reports:
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Segfault in Google Chrome - is it Nvidia card related? How do I find out?
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Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon 64-bit, based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Related Hardware
GPU: NVIDIA, GeForce GTX 1060, Max-Q Design, 6 GB VRAM
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700HQ
Could anyone tell me if the ...
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How to configure X11 for embedded i.MX6 board with touchscreen?
I plan to run an Electron app on my UDOO Neo i.MX6 board with the official st1232 7'' touchscreen kit for UDOO Neo. I created a custom Linux distro with Poky (thud branch) to be able to build a "ready ...
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Create core dump only when a systemd service dies with a specific signal (segmentation fault)
I have some services running in systemd on Ubuntu 18.04 which very occasionally crash with a segfault (11/SIGSEGV). Is it possible to configure it to create a core dump only for SIGSEGV and not when ...
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Is there any danger in using kill -11 instead of kill -9?
I've realised recently that the kill utility can send any signal I want, so when I need to SIGKILL a process (when it's hanging or something), I send a SIGSEGV instead for a bit of a laugh (kill -11 ...
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An IO write operation can outlive a process?
To the best of my knowledge, when a process writes to a file it starts a system call. Among the required information, it expects a pointer to a buffer in the user space, filled with the data to write.
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Why check_icmp plugin from centreon isn't working?
I am trying to create a custom command in centreon like
$USER1$/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$
however before that I just want to test this plugin (that comes with centreon) in my console. For that I ...
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Linux Crontab Segmentation Fault
For some reason, my crontab is giving me segmentation fault (core dumped) error when ever I attempt to access it using crontab -l or crontab -e.
Everything is fine if I access the root crontab or ...
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NS2 Linux Ubuntu 18.04 xgraph Segmentation Fault
I am currently trying to run NS2 on Ubuntu 18.04. Using the ns-allinone-2.35 package recommended by the main website (isi.edu), I am having a segmentation fault error when trying to run xgraph12.2. NS-...
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What happens whenever there is a segfault in linux
What are the steps that the Linux kernel does whenever the hardware raises segfault. Right now I know that through the IDT, the fault handler handles it, and somewhere along the road there is a ...
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Segmentation fault with echoping
I'm testing smokeping's DNS probes with the echoping program as per the documentation, but for me this is causing a segmentation fault when the command is executed by smokeping. I grabbed the command ...
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How Linux finds out about illegal memory access error?
I have a question about how Linux traps memory access errors. As far as I know, a user space program doesn't need to ask operating system every time it wants to access memory, now when the process ...
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Core File not being generated
I have recently been getting into linux through the Ubuntu Windows app. I need to look at the core file generated by a program that seg faults for a ctf, however no core file is being generated.
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Trying to run Kile gives a segmentation fault on Linux Mint 19
With the latest version of Kile installed, trying to run it crashes with a segmentation fault:
$ kile
qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
Invalid Context= "Apps" line for icon theme: "/usr/share/icons/Mint-Y/...
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How is `SIGSEGV` an example of "signals related to the current state of the process be delivered before other signals"? [closed]
APUE says
What happens if more than one signal is ready to be delivered to a process?
POSIX.1 does not specify the order in which the signals are delivered to the ...
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lalsuite pycbc won't install - Ubuntu
I'm working through these instructions https://pycbc.org/pycbc/latest/html/install_lalsuite.html for installing pycbc which I need for my research, and I have some issues. Just under half way down ...
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tracking segfault upon invocation of perl script (mytop tool and similar)
on my gentoo machine, mytop 1.9.1 quits upon invocation with the following output:
# mytop
Useless use of private variable in void context at /usr/bin/mytop line 1001.
"my" variable $data masks ...
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restart systemd after it crash
How to restart systemd after it crash? systemd currently crash during VirtualBox installation. Problem is already tracked by this issue#10716. I'm using Ubuntu 18.10.
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.2_5.2....
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