Hey there, > > 99.999% of seg faults are hardware. There is a definitive > > reference on this but I don't have it where I can get to > > it. This is primarly true of linux (if its true at all). Well, at least in my experience most seg faults are due to obscure problems with memory access. But thats windows, I don't see many in linux (besides in evolution).
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:22, brett holcomb wrote: > Just because Windows doesn't seg fault doesn't mean it's > not broken. The compling, etc. we do with Gentoo is far > harder on a system then Windows. In addition Windows may > not tell you - it just gives some strange error. > > 99.999% of seg faults are hardware. There is a definitive > reference on this but I don't have it where I can get to > it. > > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 17:18:31 +0100 > "Paulo J. Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Yes, the system has been working just fine but somehow su > >seg faulted so > >I restarted and after restart my system was completely > >corrupted (at > >least mount and su) and I haven't tried others. I have a > >new ASUS > >motherboard that's working just fine in windows so it is > >not the > >problem. I don't think it's hardware. But now I need my > >system back. Can > >I reemerge mount, su, etc? What should I do? > > > >Best regards, > > > >Paulo Matos > > > >>Content-Type: text/plain; > >> charset="iso-8859-1" > >>From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:37:56 -0400 > >>MIME-Version: 1.0 > >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >>Message-ID: > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Segmentation Fault Everywhere > >> > >>Has this system been working till now? > >> > >>Seg faults are usually hardware problems - memory, cpu, > >>motherboard. > >Mine > >>was a defective ASUS board (they replaced it). > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I'm running Gentoo on my desktop and somehow while I was > >>>working, > >su'ing > >>> to root and back, I got a segmentation fault while > >>>su'ing to root. > >Then > >>> I tried again and again and I started getting a lot of > >>>segmentation > >>> faults. Then I rebooted, at the start of boot Gentoo was > >>>not able to > >>> mount proc and stopped asking me if I wanted to enter as > >>>root so I > >did. > >>> I get segmentation fault with mount and su at least. > >>>What can I do? > >(do > >>> not answer "panic" please) Any ideas? > >>> > >>> Best regards, > >>> > >>> Paulo Jorge Matos > >> > >>-- > >> > >>Brett I. Holcomb > >>AKA Grunt <>< > > > > > > > > > >-- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
