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mkincheloe
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 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:43 am Post subject: Swapon /dev/sdx = Segementation Fault: |
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What's up. I'm trying to get Gentoo installed on an old Sparcstation 5. When activating swap I get a segmentation fault.
| Code: | swapon /dev/sda2
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Anyone know what this means exactly?
Thanks in advance.
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SPARCstation 5 with 192MB RAM, Gentoo LiveCD 'gentoo-sparc-1.4_rc4.iso', (2) 2GB SCSI disks. |
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boroshan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:20 am Post subject: |
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segmentation fault means the program tried to store data in a read only memory address.
Writing to a null pointer in a C program is the easiest way to do it, but using the wrong versions of dynamic libraries or incompatible device drivers can do it as well
Hope that helps a little
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torradan
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 11:08 am Post subject: |
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You can ignore the error...it gives the segfault message on sparc32, but it works. Its been a known issue for quite some time.
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Weeve
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, while swapon gives a segfault, it is actually activating swap. I seem to recall this is a kernel related issue. |
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wesolows
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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| This was fixed around 2.4.21 or 22. The most recent sparc-sources should not have this problem. |
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