On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running redhat 6.2 with kernel-2.2.17-14 (from redhat updated
> kernel). For the past few weeks, I've been experiencing segmentation fault
> problem and it got really bad over the weekend. The segmentation fault
> problem I am talking about has nothing to do with any local program we
> have here. It just occurs when we run some simple unix command, like ls,
> man, pine, etc. Anyone knows why this happens?
>
> My first suspicion is these commands either have been compromised or
> corrupted, but then again sometimes they just run fine.
>
> My next suspicion is there may be some bad spot on the memory, but again I
> did some heavy running jobs under windows and it ran fine too. If there is
> bad memory spot, one of these process should have hit it and die already I
> think. (The jobs I gave windows to run were big enough to eat up my tiny
> 64M of memory and more for sure.)
>
> Another note, I eventually reboot the linux system (today) and it seems
> that after reboot, this segmentation fault problem doesn't occur as often.
> I wonder as time goes on, it may resurface again.
> Any suggestion on what I should do now? Thanks
>
> Jimmy
>
>
First, use rpm -Va and make sure the files are what they should be.
If the files are ok, then run memtest86 To check your memory.
also check that your cooling fans are working, and that the case vents
are not clogged. I suspect a cooling problem, but that should show up
in windows more then Linux, or a memory problem. Memory problems tend
to show up more in Linux then in windows because Linux tends to use all
memory.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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