Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt segfaults. For example, yesterday, I tried to start firefox, and before it even displayed its window, it died with a segfault.
Even portage was a victim of this: trying to emerge anything, or even do an "emerge search" resulted in an almost instant segfault. The weird thing is, after waiting a while (say two or three hours), the problem went away---everything just started working. Last night, my email client, mutt, suddenly started having this problem: I could use it, up until switching to the "gentoo-user" folder, when it would crash with a segmentation fault. X was hung, so I rebooted. Now I can get into my gentoo-user folder... but for how long? All of my system partitions (/, /usr, /var, /tmp) reside on an ext3 filesystem; I ran e2fsck on all partitions. I've also run "smartctl -t long" on the disk---no problems reported. So I don't think my hard drive is dying. Anyone else ever experience anything like this? Anyone have any thoughts as to what the problem might be? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
