On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Matt - wrote: > It has been working for about a week but then today, all of a > sudden, I get a "segmentation fault" when I try to run the "ls" > command in the directory - ditto with "dir". Strangely enough, > I can "cd" into directories I know exist. Here's a copy-paste > of a typical mount attempt: > > [root@localhost /]# mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win > [root@localhost /win]# mount > /dev/hdc1 on / type ext2 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > /dev/hda1 on /win type vfat (rw) > [root@localhost /win]# ls > Segmentation fault > [root@localhost /win]# dir > Segmentation fault > [root@localhost /win]# mc > Segmentation fault > [root@localhost /win]# cd windows > [root@localhost windows]# ls > Segmentation fault > [root@localhost /win]# cd desktop > [root@localhost desktop]# ls > Segmentation fault > > If I try to run "vi autoexec.ba[TAB]" it will die and > destroy xterm !? > > I have tried booting the windows hard drive and all works > correctly, I have run a "basic" windows scandisk on the > drive and it reports no errors. > > What could I be doing wrong ? I'm really bad at hardware > diagnosis :)
Sounds like some fun.. you're going to have to provide some more information like so:- mount .. cd /win strace ls >/tmp/strace.log 2>&1 If you haven't got strace, it should be on your install CD's somewhere. It will trace all library calls and you can even get something out of it if you've not done any programming. There's a *lot* of info output so just skip to the end and post about the last page to the SLUG list. I got exactly 100 lines on my junkfs for example that didn't have any errors, I can tell a lot of time it spends openning up libraries & so forth before getting to the nitty gritty, in fact the last 7 lines is where it looks at the directory! -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
