Re: Is this really the right thing to do?

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
> 
> Ed Cogburn writes:
> > I occasionally see a "general protection failure" (or something similar)
> > message that starts with a string of zeros.  As long as they are
> > transient, they are not serious (but indicate a weakness in dpkg)
> 
> No they don't.  A "general protection failure" can never be caused by an
> application.  It is either a kernel bug or (more likely) a hardware
> problem.


	As I said later in my message, I'm not sure of the error messages
'name' or origin, because I haven't seen one of these failures
recently.  It can't be hardware though, these transient errors began
when I was using my older computer.


-- 
Ed C.