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Re: man -> segfault



Hey,


Problem solved. Look below for details..

On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote:
 : I'm getting SEGFAULT's using `man' sometimes. Not every manpage I try.
 : 
 : For example, `man man' works, so does `man 7 signal', but `man signal' gives
 : this when stracing it:
 : 
 : execve("/usr/bin/man", ["man", "signal"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
 : mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40007000
[snip]

 : mmap(0, 1663074304, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = -1 ENOMEM (Out of memory)
              ^^^^^ [1]
 
 : brk(0x6b263000)                         = 0x805b000
 : --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
 : +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

Indeed. My swap isn't that big as 1.6Gbyte.


The problem solved by reinstalling the Debian package. Strange, because I
didn't get ny errors on the filesystem when fschk'ing it.

Remco

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