Re: Segmentation fault

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Patrick Kirk wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I get this message whenever I try using apt-get.  What is a segmentation
> fault and should I be concerned?  Please do let me know!
> 
> Patrick
> 
> rhino:/home/patrick# apt-get update
> Get http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages
> Get http://www.uk.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
> 0%  [Packages `Connecting to non-us.debian.org' 0] [Packages `Connecting to
> www.
> 
> Get http://www.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages
> Get http://www.uk.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
> Fetched 618k in 33s (18.4k/s)
> Updating package file cache...done
> Updating package status cache...done
> Checking system integrity...ok
> Segmentation fault
> rhino:/home/patrick#
> 
I have gotten pretty much this exact error.  It turned out to be (I
think) bad memory.  You might want to try out memtest86 on your machine.
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