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Re: Is this really the right thing to do?



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.
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