Re: Lots of scary segfaults

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response!
>
> On Saturday 27 September 2003 16:21, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > fsck the disk. 
>
> OK! However, physical access to this computer is a complex issue, and to 
> run fsck on the / and /usr partitions (which are the most obvious 
> places to look), I can't think of a way to unmount them without having 
> to reboot from a rescue system. Is there a way, or is there a way to 
> check without unmounting?
>
> > Find a specific program that segfaults. Reinstall the
> > program. If it still segfaults, then ldd <prog> to find its
> > libraries. Check or reinstall the libraries. Run ldconfig and check
> > for errors.
>
> OK, so most likely, it is a damaged binary?

It could be, but it's usually a symptom of slight filesystem corruption
that can be easily fixed with fsck. If you know a specific binary that's
segfaulting, then you could copy it to your local pc and compare it
against a good one. If it's not that, you can do the same with its
shared libs.