On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 at 11:15am, Thomas Beer wrote

> after installing amanda on two linux hosts,
> I get on one the following error:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 2:  5380 Segmentation fault
> /usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e
> "/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"

I don't see at *all* how installing amanda would cause that.  Random 
processes seg-faulting often means hardware trouble, oftentimes bad memory 
or too much heat.

Try some other somewhat intensive programs (e.g. build a kernel with 'make 
-j4') and see if those complete successfully.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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