Re: Segmentation fault in dpkg and aptitude
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:48:37PM -0700, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> was heard to say:
>> Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
>>
>> > After making the following changes to pull in sid's bluez 4.0 package in
>> > a lenny system, I'm now getting segmentation faults when I run dpkg and
>> > aptitude. Any thoughts on how to recover from this?
>>
>> I found I was able to run "apt-get -f install" twice and be able to
>> use aptitude to perform package maintenance again.
>>
>> However, now I'm finding that Emacs and Firefox (Iceweasel) die with
>> segmentation faults at random times. Wonder if I'll get this email
>> away...
>
> It sounds like bad memory to me. Have you tried running a memory
> checker?
Thanks, Daniel. No I haven't since it hadn't occurred to me: the
machine is new and I just added some good quality Mushkin memory. I'll
try memtester, although the documentation says it won't be able to
test all 8 GB of my memory. Then I'll try memtest86+ when I'm not
using the machine. It's been a long, long time since I've used these.
Any other suggestions?
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