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Old 11-11-2002, 01:14 PM   #1
mdebolt942
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Segmentation fault when installing packages


Redhat linux 8.0. When trying to install any packages from terminal or command line a segmentation fault error message appears. No core dump is indicated and the rest of the system appears to work properly. This began only after a few successful package installs. The packages in question were used on other machines so the package itself should be ok. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Old 11-11-2002, 01:40 PM   #2
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interesting, run
ulimit -c number_of_blocks
to set core dump limit size, by default it is set to 0 so nothing is dumpped, just remember that 1 block is 4k by default for ext2/3 filesystems, and 2k for reiserFS, so calculate how many blocks you are willing to allocate for core dumps, then when core is created use strings or a hex editor to get an idea what could be causing the rpm to segfault. You know there is nothing we can help you out if the message reads segmentation fault - it could be anything from a corrupted rpm to filesystem corruption
 
Old 11-12-2002, 02:04 PM   #3
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Update on seg fault

Well this machine is going to drive me crazy. Today some packages would install but not necessarily on the first try. This computer is one of 8 in a computer lab. All the packages installed perfectly on the other 7 machines. They are all also set up identically. Whatever the problem is it is intermittent and there doesn't seem to be a logical explanation.
 
Old 11-12-2002, 09:52 PM   #4
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Alert - hardware!!!
 
Old 11-13-2002, 05:58 AM   #5
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Yes I have come to the conclusion there must be a hardware problem somewhere. Have done multiple surface scans on the hard drive which by the way is less than a year old. Since there are other identical computers in this lab I have swapped out memory, video card and even CPU. Only thing I can figure is it might be the motherboard. One more interesting fact. This computer has seemed to act up from time to time from the begining. New memory and hard drive havent fixed the problem so I guess the answer is to live with it for now. It runs on an AMD K6-2 400 processor with 192 M of memory so that shouldnt be a problem. Thanks for the info
 
  


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