Every time I compile anything, I recieve a Segmentation Fault. What is causing this? I have been told that this is becuase of harware issues. Its there a test to run to check my hardware for faults or anything I can do to repair this issue if its hardware?

Any help would be great!

I've always heard that consistent segfaults during compiling was due to bad or insufficient RAM. How much RAM do you have? As far as testing it, I don't know - there may be something on your machine or you could do a search for 'RAM tester' or something like. Also, if you have other sticks of RAM laying around, you could try swapping them and see if it makes a difference. I haven't had that problem so haven't learned much about it.

I have a 512 and a 128 in my computer now/ I am running memtester but I am not to sure how to really work in a Linux environment with repairing memory errors. So far I am passing all the tests.

I get the segfault error on every compile so it has to be a hardware issue or momory. I also found this http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-673.html

Thanks for the response. Any other memory ideas I can try to fix? Would a completly new format of my harddrive help at all too?

I wouldn't reformat - your storage space shouldn't have anything to do with segfaults. I've also heard mismtached memory can be a problem (but I think that's only with older hardware) and that Windows can be more forgiving of bad RAM (but it seems you're testing it under Linux) and that's plenty of memory. If it's every application either it is a hardware issue or you're missing some vital stuff in your system. I'd expect that to generate errors, not segfaults, though. Maybe the compiler itself is screwed up somehow? I'm really out of ideas - I'd just say not to reformat.

Hopefully others will offer their ideas.