Re: Segmentation fault - meaning
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:30:33 +0200
Hans du Plooy <hansdp@newingtoncs.co.za> wrote:
> On Thursday 08 January 2004 00:05, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
> wrote:
> > > I try to run it on the laptop I get a segmentation fault. What does
> > > that mean, and what sorts of things might cause it?
> > This is a but, plain and simple. It means that the program tried to
> > access some protected memory segment.
>
> Worst case scenario, this could also mean your RAM is bad. If you want to
> rule out this possibility, google for memtest - a bootable image that stress
> tests your RAM.
Or just "apt-get install memtest86" and add it to /etc/lilo.conf
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