Segmentation Faults are a sign of dud software. In one of the generations of
cpu in the past (The "My useless cpu is better than your useless cpu" stage)
somebody (Intel) went to 16 bit data bus and registers, but 20 bit address
bus. How do you address the last four bits? Enter a crude paging system with
four bit registers, which allowed pcs only to address 64K of upper memory at
a time. This, I think, is "Real Mode" in the 386+ and reality for anything
below, and a huge compatability nightmare. It also explains why Dos is
comfortable in 16 bits, and windows has such difficulty with it. This
segmentation thing is hidden in there always.
The result is in this limited mode, that if you try to grab something off the
wrong page, you get a segmentation fault. But linux requires a 386+ because
it never wants to use this stupid way of going on in the first place (GOOD
WORK, LINUS!). When you see "Segmentation Fault", that cpu is in real mode,
the application is has gone off the rails and switched the cpu to real mode
which I don't think linux ever uses. So there's either a dud compiler, dud
support files, dud disk, dud rpm, or dud something. Time for the M$ solution
(delete & reinstall). Lastly, don't take all of this as gospel; I'm an
electronic hardware type, with no authority on software issues.
--
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Experience is like a comb,
that Life gives you - AFTER all your hair has fallen out!
On Sunday 09 December 2001 17:32, you wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:48:14 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote:
> >Why the hell use srpms and have compile probs, when you can use the
> > generic rpms ??
>
> Well,
>
> The rpms are built on a SuSE box and all I get from them is a
> segmentation fault. But it would seem that this is common as I get the
> same fault after I got the thing built from tarballs.
>
> Is there a dump log that saves data from segmentation fault errors?
>
> stayler
>
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