On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Tom Goulet wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> My apologies if this isn't the list for pesky technical problems regarding
> the GIMPS client.
>
> I grabbed the one specified for Red Hat 6.0, the filename (after gunzipping)
> is mprime-18.1-redhat6. I try to run it...Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> This happened with the other mprime.tar.gz package as well. Is this a
> known issue? Could my redhat installation be missing something that
> the client needs? (I have a lot of stuff not-installed.)
>
> In other news, I installed the client on slackware and it worked fine. :)
> (the mprime.tar.gz one)
>
> Any help?
Not much help maybe, but I run it in more than one Red Hat 6.0 system,
with no such problems. I get segfaults very consistently
when the CPU fan breaks, to such an extent that I can use the program
to detect this common hardware problem even in machines to which I have
limited direct contact.
http://www.mat.puc-rio.br/~nicolau
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